Download eBook Free: https://ouo.io/8G6PpuO Liminality and Experience A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Psychosocial By: Paul Stenner Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Print ISBN: 9781137272102, 1137272104 eText ISBN: 9781137272119, 1137272112 Copyright year: 2017 Format: EPUB Available from $ 89.00 USD SKU 9781137272119 This book breathes new life into the study of liminal experiences of transition and transformation, or ‘becoming’. It brings fresh insight into affect and emotion, dream and imagination, and fabulation and symbolism by tracing their relation to experiences of liminality. The author proposes a distinctive theory of the relationship between psychology and the social sciences with much to share with the arts. Its premise is that psychosocial existence is not made of ‘stuff’ like building blocks, but of happenings and events in which the many elements that compose our lives are temporarily drawn together. The social is not a thing but a flow of processes, and our personal subjectivity is part of that flow, ‘selves’ being tightly interwoven with ‘others’. But there are breaks and ruptures in the flow, and during these liminal occasions our experience unravels and is rewoven. This book puts such moments at the core of the psychosocial research agenda. Of transdisciplinary scope, it will appeal beyond psychosocial studies and social psychology to all scholars interested in the interface between experience and social (dis)order.
