La identidad ensamblada: la ordenación de la felicidad

  1. Helena Béjar Merino
Journal:
Papeles del CEIC

ISSN: 1695-6494

Year of publication: 2015

Issue: 2

Pages: 10

Type: Article

DOI: 10.1387/PCEIC.13234 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

The following article is a work in sociology of culture in which I analyze critically contemporary positive psychology as a paradigmatic case of the present cultural imperative to be happy. The theoretical context is the process of individualization and the therapeutic culture. Both have been building an ideal of the self as reflexive and self-constituted opposed to the self as morally and socially embedded. The critical analysis of the techniques to reach “positivity” is the bulk of this article. I have studied also the values of positive psychology, its moral languages and the inner tensions in the different repertoires of meaning. I have analyzed books on positive psychology that are in between scientific and popular psychology. These texts belong to advice literature since they openly recommend following specific rules of conduct. They also define good and bad emotions. Therefore, they intend to define a specific ideal of personal identity.

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