Rearticulating motives / Morten Nissen.
Nissen, Morten.
2023
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Title
Rearticulating motives / Morten Nissen.
Author
Nissen, Morten.
ISBN
9783031434945 (electronic bk.)
3031434943 (electronic bk.)
3031434935
9783031434938
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43494-5
Publication Details
Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (295 p.).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-43494-5 doi
Call Number
BF503
Dewey Decimal Classification
153.1/534
Summary
This book presents a theory of motives that has evolved over decades in dialogue with academics and with practitioners. The key proposal is that of collectively cultivating meta-motives rather than the ubiquitous recipes for manipulating self-regulation. Cultivating meta-motives can proceed through rearticulating motives. Such rearticulation engages with theories and practices of motivation and motives. First, this is a discussion of the psychologies of motivation, and a reflection of post-psychology as a way forward. Second, this discussion takes us back to fundamental problems with subjectivity, and with psychology, even critical psychology, as a way of addressing it. Third, out of this theoretical work come concepts that are put to work in understanding practices of modelling and cultivating motives clinical, social work, and educational practices. In the first instance, as a critique of contemporary pragmatic practices, and then by rearticulating aesthetic practices as ways to expand and overcome those. Fourth, this has implications for the cultivation of the competence in care for motives, and for the place of theory in this competence. The book provides both a theoretical argument and a resource for those professionals in education, social work, and health who seek a qualitative understanding of what they do. Motivation is the central issue of human psychology. Yet it is gloriously understudied within the kind of psychologies that have flourished over the past century. This book Rearticulating Motives makes a difference. Not only are issues of motivation brought back into the theoretical center of psychological science through this book, but the whole issue of motivation is appropriately situated within the field of our societal discourses about addictions, therapies, standards, and ordinary human strivings to be some-body in the middle of many-bodies. Jaan Valsiner, Berlin.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Theory and history in the human and social sciences.
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Intro
Series Editor's Preface: Desire for Agency- The Aesthetic of Motivation
Some of the Author's Debts and Gratitudes
Metalogue on Meta-motives (with Julie Kordovsky)
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Motivation, Needs, and Meta-motives
1.2 Rearticulating Technologies and Their Motives
1.3 Human Nature
1.4 Rearticulating the Many Psychologies
1.5 Collaborative Research as Applied Science Studies
1.6 Counselling Traditions as Precursors to a Post-psychology
1.7 Aesthetic Dissensus and Cultivating Meta-motives

1.8 Reading (This Book) Is Sculpturing: Overview of the Book
Chapter 2: A Post-psychology of Motivation
2.1 This Is Not a State of the Art
2.2 Brackets and Boundary Objectivities
2.3 Energy and Activities: The Substance Versus the Forms of Subjectivity
2.4 Bypassing the Self-Behavior Design and "Nudging"
2.5 Pragmatic Utopianism and the Scientific Articulation of the Common-Sense Self
2.6 The Calculating/Calculated Subject
2.7 Needs or Brains?
2.8 Quantified Humanism: Self-Determination Theory
2.9 Understanding the Glue

2.10 Sciences of Subjectivity: Off-Mainstream Objectivity as Theory Relevant to Transforming Institutional Practices
2.11 Functionalism and the Objectivity of Activity Theory
2.12 A Space Free of Objectivity: Holzkamp's Reinvention of Phenomenology Within Critical Psychology
2.13 Drives and Desires
2.14 Stieglerian Repression: The Pre-psychological Temptation
Chapter 3: Theoretical Reconceptalization: From Needs to Meta-motives
3.1 Methodological Reflections: The Role and the Objectivity of Theory in a Critical Post-psychology of Motives

3.2 The Desire for Agency in Osterkamp's Motivationsforschung
3.3 Individualities of Subjects and of Persons
3.4 We and I: Care as Practice, Beyond the Oedipal, and the Rational
3.5 Framing, Meta-motives: Boundary Objectivity in and for Itself
3.6 The Pharmaka of Liminal Technologies
3.7 Affect and the Liminal Materiality of Meta-Motives
3.8 Aesthetic Cultivation Beyond Function
Chapter 4: Rearticulating Counselling
4.1 On Rearticulating Activities and Practices
4.2 Infested Autonomy: Choice or Competence?
4.3 The Pragmatics of Signs With/Without Reference

4.4 The Contents of the Empty Form
4.5 From Signs to Aesthetics
Chapter 5: Writing Poetic Selves
5.1 Aesthetic Documentation
5.2 Context: The Revolution of Self-Writing
5.3 A Golden Yarnball of Convoluted Words
5.4 Write!
Chapter 6: Re-/Presenting Care for Motives
6.1 Texts for Care - Texts on Care
6.2 The Wiki Manual
6.3 The Role of Theory in Prototyping Motives
References
Index

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