Media Research and Psychoanalysis: A Suggestion
Johanssen, J. 2016. Media Research and Psychoanalysis: A Suggestion. International Communication Gazette. 78 (7), pp. 688-693. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048516655730
Johanssen, J. 2016. Media Research and Psychoanalysis: A Suggestion. International Communication Gazette. 78 (7), pp. 688-693. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048516655730
Title | Media Research and Psychoanalysis: A Suggestion |
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Authors | Johanssen, J. |
Abstract | This short commentary outlines psychoanalysis as a theory and method and its potential value to media research. Following Dahlgren (2013), it is suggested that psychoanalysis may enrich the field because it may offer a complex theory of the human subject, as well as methodological means of doing justice to the richness, ambivalence and contradictions of human experience. The psychoanalytic technique of free association and how it has been adapted in social research (Hollway and Jefferson 2000) is suggested as a means to open up subjective modes of expression and thinking – in researchers and research participants alike – that lie beyond rationality and conscious agency. |
Keywords | Psychoanalysis, theory, subject, free association, methodology. |
Journal | International Communication Gazette |
Journal citation | 78 (7), pp. 688-693 |
ISSN | 1748-0485 |
Year | 2016 |
Publisher | Sage |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048516655730 |
Web address (URL) | http://gaz.sagepub.com/ |
Publication dates | |
Published | 01 Jul 2016 |
Published in print | Nov 2016 |