![]() The introduction establishes a definition of plague satire and constructs a methodological framework for its theoretical and historical method. These discursively constructed bodies were symbolically dismembered in a rhetorical invective of satiric blame and disgust. Through the metaphor of the anatomy, satirical anatomists dissected and refashioned the threatened abject bodies of plague: the uninfected bodies and infected bodies of epidemical London. The book is envisaged as a work-assemblage rather than systematization and as an intervention into the current impasse between critical psychology and the ‘mainstream’.Ībstract This dissertation investigates the satirical anatomy of pestilence and the satiric disgust of plague in early modern London. A final chapter proposes a concept of experience based on the relations between power (or affect), image (or percept), proposition (or concept) and enunciation (or discourse) in order to make the arts of existence or the art of living the central object of Psychology. These include Niklas Luhmann (on communication) Antonin Artaud (on embodiment) Baruch Spinoza (on affect) Henri Bergson (on memory) Michel Foucault (on subjectivity) and Giles Deleuze (on life). Each of the following six chapters takes a key thinker as a guide to an important psychological topic. Following an introductory chapter, the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and Michel Serres are drawn upon to introduce these twin concepts of process and mediation. To this end the book assembles a range of thinkers that share an orientation to reality as multiply mediated process or becoming. We must seek an ‘image of the psychological’ as it appears across the most diverse of terrains. The psychological resists any easy determination. ![]() A case is made for a ‘reflexive’ or ‘creative’ (non)foundationalism that might give rise to a ‘psychology of the second order’. The guiding theme is that we need to rethink our relationship to foundations and to affirm the paradox that foundations must be continually self-constructed. Psychology without foundations offers a range of philosophical and theoretical resources that contribute to a vision of psychology as a transdiscipline.
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