Outlines. Critical Practice Studies

Outlines. Critical Practice Studies https://tidsskrift.dk/outlines Critical Practice studies. Inter- and transdisciplinary journal for critical studies of practices in socio-cultural and historical context. en-US From issue no. 1 2022 and onward, the journal uses the CC Attribution-NonCommercial- Share Alike 4.0 license <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/</a>) The authors retain the copyright to their articles. The articles published in the previous 37 issues (From Vol. 1, no. 1, 1999 to Vol. 22, No. 1, 2021, are published according to Danish Copyright legislation. This implies that readers can download, read, and link to the articles, but they cannot republish these articles. The journal retain the copyright of these articles. Authors can upload them in their institutional repositories as a part of a green open access policy. evianna@lagcc.cuny.edu (Eduardo Vianna) vija@kb.dk (Vibeke Jartoft) Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:03:00 +0200 OJS 3.3.0.13 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 A Critical Disquisition on the Ideology of Anxiety https://tidsskrift.dk/outlines/article/view/144821 The essay explores how transdisciplinary and psychoanalytic perspectives can contribute to critical psychological studies of anxiety, namely how psychological concepts themselves constitute relevant relations and obstacles for subjects in practice. Building on the subject science of German/Nordic critical psychology, the research object of this paper is centered around the precarious ambiguity of anxiety in its subjective and objective forms. In German/Nordic critical psychology, anxiety is an integral aspect of human agency in and through how subjects relate to their possibilities to act in tandem with the possible effects of transacting those possibilities concretely. How the subject relates to its possibilities has societal preconditions and implications and is mediated by cultural objects and their meanings in structures of ideology. With the advent and proliferation of therapeutic discourse, anxiety itself has become one such cultural object and a pivotal form of everyday ideology. In the paper, I will begin from a personal encounter with the therapeutic discourse followed by an introduction to German/Nordic critical psychology and its later post-psychological developments. By analyzing the concept of anxiety throughout representative Danish therapeutic research, I will outline the promises of an existentialist critique of ideology: how critique only properly reflects subjectivity to the extent that it emancipates the subject from its spontaneous ideological form. Jeppe Pasgaard Copyright (c) 2025 Jeppe Pasgaard https://tidsskrift.dk/outlines/article/view/144821 Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200