Panic and perjury: A psychosocial exploration of agency
Panic and perjury: A psychosocial exploration of agency
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DOI：
10.1348/014466604x18983
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发表时间：
2005-06-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Jefferson, T
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作者：
Hollway, W;Jefferson, T
本文的目的是探讨一个人在困境中的困境，以产生一个心理社会分析，可以有助于社会心理学的理解机构。在简要回顾了代理理论化中的二元论问题和自我理论的相关发展，以及对单一理性主体假设的批判之后，我们强调了无意识冲突对选择和代理的影响。我们还确定了包括人们的传记动机的投资在特定的话语立场的重要性。文斯是一个来自英格兰北部的中年工人阶级，也是我们案例研究的对象。为了保住一份对他不利的工作，他已经面临着艰难的选择。现在，一场没有明显器质性基础、也没有改善前景的疾病似乎夺走了他的选择权，这场疾病迫使他休了5个月的病假。我们在本文中的方法，从两个采访的材料的解释的基础上，是详细的文斯的工作，他的多重和矛盾的意义。在每三个领域-工作的日常经验，有一个体面的工作的意义，文斯的关系与他的老板-我们说明了权力的心理分析，以逃避个人行动的非理性和确定性帐户的局限性。最后，我们将文斯案例中的选择主体定义为无意识冲突的分裂的心理社会主体;一个位于社会现实中的主体，不仅由社会话语，而且由心理防御介导。
The aim of this article is to explore the predicament of one man in difficult circumstances, in order to produce a psychosocial analysis that could contribute to a social psychological understanding of agency. After a brief review of the problem of dualism in theorizing agency and relevant developments in theories of self, and a critique of assumptions about unitary rational subjects, we emphasize the effects of unconscious conflict on choice and agency. We also identify the importance of including people's biographically motivated investments in specific discursive positions. Vince, a middle-aged, working-class man from the north of England, the subject of our case study, had already been faced with difficult choices in order to hold on to a job that was bad for him. Now the choice appeared to be taken out of his hands by an illness without a discernible organic base and with no prospect of improvement that, for 5 months, had forced him to be on sick leave. Our approach in this paper, based on interpretation of material from two interviews, is to detail the multiple and contradictory meanings of Vince's job to him. In each of three areas - the daily experience of the job, the meaning of having a respectable job, and Vince's relationship with his boss - we illustrate the power of a psychosocial analysis to escape the limitations of both voluntaristic and deterministic accounts of individual action. In conclusion we define the agent of choice in Vince's case as the divided psychosocial subject of unconscious conflict; a subject located in social realities mediated not only by social discourses but by psychic defences.