A Nietzschian and Foucaultian Critique of Psychology

Journal of the Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought ^ | 1993?

[xm177e2]

Like other critics who hail from the discipline itself and have adopted a Bakhtinian alternative (e.g., Shotter, 1993), Evans reminds us that entire traditions for understanding people in their everyday worlds (as opposed to predicting their activities in special institutional circumstances) have been neglected in our psychologies.

It's important to make the word "psychology" plural. Otherwise, we might not know there is more than one school of thought within the discipline. I mean, people could get the wrong idea! </sarcasm>

Idiot pomos.

[Old Professer]

As I have said before, "I am all 'thralled' out."

[Old Professer]

So wasteful - B.S.

[Old Professer]

Heurism is not for the meek.

[Old Professer]

Many a penny has been found among the dung.

[tortoise]

More mental masturbation. Some day we will all look back on these threads and feel like idiots. And it will be the doers rather than the thinkers that will put us in our place.

Heh. I spent my entire weekend working on patent paperwork. I must be cranky.

[Iris7]

Actually I get a charge out of the Post-Modernist "arguments", and they are not that complicated. They always sound like a parody, but are supposed to be serious.

There are maybe twenty or thirty words that have special meaning, "voices", "discourse", etc. He is talking about the competition for funding and prestige in "psychology" academia.

Just read the thing again. It is funny. What a doofus.

[Old Professer]

Many a penny has been found among the dung.

That sounds so good I'm going to copyright it.

[budwiesest]

This looks like a good one to wade through slowly (but it's getting too late for tonight) so I bump it now as a means of finding it later....
.....when I've got my hip boots on! (hehehe!) Just kidding.

[Iris7]

You, sir, have a very droll sense of humor!

[tortoise]

Many a penny has been found among the dung.

Working minimum wage would be more rewarding than digging through turds for pennies. I would wonder about the "good fortune" of finding a penny in a pile of manure. (Yes, I know. Metaphor.)

Sounds like a game show idea that Fox would buy into...

[bruinbirdman]

" If you look, for example, at liberal sociology, it is an entire system of thought or pseudoscience which has been devised to avoid analysis of problem, but which pretends to analyze those problems."

Ayn Rand couldn't have said it better.

yitbos

[Old Professer]

It wasn't a simple metaphor; it was a silly wordplay; let it roll off the tongue, so to speak.

[unspun]

More mental masturbation. Some day we will all look back on these threads and feel like idiots. And it will be the doers rather than the thinkers that will put us in our place.

You mean physical masturbators?

[headsonpikes]

"They always sound like a parody..."

I see it as an intellectual cargo-cult. They think that the use of Greek and Latin-rooted neologisms lends gravitas to their logorrhea.

I guess they impress each other. ;^)

[unspun]

Postmodernists/deconstructionists, creationists, cultists, etc. are at war with real science. Of course, science will win.

Since when are people who refuse to close their minds to what our founders called "self evident truths" at war with science? People of our tradition of western thought came up with science! It is only the materialists (the most famous of which is either Charles Darwin or Karl Marx) who came later and have created a kind of intellectual bannana republic coup, whereby the natural sciences are perverted and overextended towards ontology and at the same time the intellect is castrated of the consideration of what is not "physical."

[unspun]

It is better to be educated than not.

[RightWhale]

Not computational, not statistical. Organic. It shall be called the pluralvocal identity and become as famous as any other momentarily famous theory of mind.

[headsonpikes]

"It is better to be educated than not."

I thank my lucky stars for the excellent philosophy department I discovered as a youth. It was 'bombs away' on meaningless bombast such as the ideological spewing in the article posted.

The so-called 'social sciences' constitute an intellectual fraud on a mass scale.

[RightWhale]

the use of Greek and Latin-rooted neologisms

Stick with the Greek. There are twice as many useful prefices and suffices available from Greek in common use.