A Flaw in the Great Diamond of the World: On Contemporary Psychology and Subjectivity - Louis Sass

Analysing subjectivity is unlike analysing anything else. The way we conceptualise ourselves alters our own nature. The process of self-interpretation is also a process of self-constitution. Conscious awareness is the flaw in the great diamond of the world. It is an irreducible gap in what might otherwise have been a satisfying objectivist naturalised picture of the universe. In this lecture, Professor Louis Sass explores, through the analysis of literary and artistic works of the Renaissance, the historical origins of the confrontation with subjectivity in the modern West and then considers some contemporary psychological perspectives. Psychologists and psychiatrists should ask themselves if their field does justice to the forms of subjectivity and selfhood that began to come into focus and into being in the Renaissance.
This is the second lecture in the London Lecture Series 2023/24, which this year is on the subject of Madness and Mental Health. Watch the whole series here: • Madness and Mental Hea...
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[@husserliana]

Hugely important and under-appreciated perspective. The psychological sciences--including psychoanalysis would benefit from a more fine-grained appreciation of subjectivity. It would promote more empathic therapies and more respect for the differences in others' experience that are often explained away by the mechanistic/objectivist frameworks that undergird conventional mental health models.

[@TimberWolfmanV6]

Could use some inner peace to aid ease the thought process to that still place where all the answers you are