Psychoanalytic Approach

discursive psychology

• explores the cultural resources that people draw on in accounts,

• reads the text for the identity positions that are con structed for the person talking and the audience listening

psychoanalysis

• is more interested in talk as suggestive of psychic structures that organize individuals’ internal worlds in a particular way

• therefore social structures but also ‘added to’ from the unconscious

1. conduct biographical-narrative interview

2. write up field notes detailing observations of the participant’s interaction w/ the interviewer

3. transcribe the interview

4. discursive reading of the entire interview text

5. identify core narratives in the interview

6. retranscribe the core narratives and conduct a fine grained ‘poetic’ reading of the test

7. apply psychoanalytic interpretative strategies to core narratives to thicken the discursive reading of the text

methodological procedures for psychoanalytic approach

affective turn

• Whilst discursive psychology and psycho analysis have been in this rather tense dialogue, the more recent ‘—’ has increased the impetus for the social sciences to engage with psy choanalysis.

• This — has questioned the privileging of text and discourse arguing that ‘there is more to emotion than talk about emotion and more to emotion than can be captured in conscious experience’