Table of Contents

Part I. The Devices of Psychology and their Critique 1. The psychological complex and critical alternatives in psychology 2. The energy of poiesis 3. The poetic dimension in psychological praxis Part II. The Event of Psychopoetics 4. Language: order-word and minoritarian becoming 5. Intuitive plot, affective reason and instant thought 6. Poetics of disorder, eccentricity and transignification Part III. Psychopoetics: Writings of Imagination and Amusement 7. Las Meninas (by Witkin) or the unpredictable emergence of the powers of the soul 8. The bottle of Beaujolais: a (not overly) critical discourse analysis 9. The New Voight-Kampff test and detecting a replicating subjectivity Annex 1. Photograph of Joel-Peter Witkin entitled "Las Meninas (Autorretrato según Velázquez)" (1987)

About the Author

Raúl Ernesto García is a tenured, full-time professor/researcher in the Faculty of Psychology at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Morelia, México. His general areas of research include theory and critique of cultural and discursive processes and subjectivization; and studies of the concept of dialogue and conversation and their current utilization in interventive apparatuses of the psychological complex. García has also published numerous specialized articles and book chapters on the aforementioned topics, as well as the book El diálogo en descomposición (2008), an essay on the emergence and transformations of the concept of dialogue in philosophical milieus and social thought.