Three Approaches to Psychical Reality: An Interview with Dr. Antoine Mooij

Chris R Bell

doi:10.7565/landp.2015.012

Abstract

During the fall of 2012, my first semester in the newly developed doctoral program Psychology: Consciousness and Society at University of West Georgia, I happened upon a remarkable book that was to become a continuing source of inspiration and guidance for my studies in psychology pursued as a human science – Antoine Mooij’s Psychiatry as a Human Science: Phenomenological, Hermeneutical and Lacanian Perspectives. Human science psychology emphasizes the centrality and irreducibility of psychical reality, of first person subjective experience, even as it recognizes its overdetermined character in the multiple causal networks of evolving nature and culture.

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During the fall of 2012, my first semester in the newly developed doctoral program Psychology: Consciousness and Society at University of West Georgia, I happened upon a remarkable book that was to become a continuing source of inspiration and guidance for my studies in psychology pursued as a human science – Antoine Mooij’s Psychiatry as a Human Science: Phenomenological, Hermeneutical and Lacanian Perspectives
Chris Bell (CB): Two of your books have recently been published in English, Intentionality, Desire, Responsibility by Brill and Psychiatry as a Human Science: Phenomenological, Hermeneutical and Lacanian Perspectives by Rodopi
In the Netherlands some tact is necessary when speaking about Lacan; in general people are rejective

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Introduction

During the fall of 2012, my first semester in the newly developed doctoral program Psychology: Consciousness and Society at University of West Georgia, I happened upon a remarkable book that was to become a continuing source of inspiration and guidance for my studies in psychology pursued as a human science – Antoine Mooij’s Psychiatry as a Human Science: Phenomenological, Hermeneutical and Lacanian Perspectives. I have done a lot of work in the fields of phenomenology and hermeneutics; in the Netherlands these are traditionally incorporated in philosophy, and in early psychiatry (Rümke). CB: In Psychiatry As a Human Science you provide a unique account of space and time orientations of clinical subject positions in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

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