Speaker
Dr. Thomas Teo (York University, Psychology)
Title
From the 'Camera Obscura' to 'Agnotology': Reconstructing 'Ideologiekritik' in Psychology
Abstract
This presentation is part of a larger project on the critique of ideology and its application in psychology. I will present and discuss some preliminary thoughts on this program. Beginning with Marx and critical theory, moving through feminism, postmodernism, postcolonialism, and more recent developments in critical thought, I propose a network of concepts that moves beyond a modern framework and allows incorporating more recent developments into the study of false consciousness. I discuss how ideology critique relates to psychology, which is understood as in need of “therapy,” and I develop the possibilities as well as limitations of self-reflection from an epistemological point of view. Self-reflection is theoretically understood as a Kantian condition for the possibility of knowledge in the human sciences in their rational and empirical appearances.
Directions
York University