Group Identity and Individuality in Times of Crisis: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Social Psychological Knowledge
探讨社会心理学中群体身份概念在知识危机和学科认同危机背景下的演变,指出欧洲传统研究虽承诺全面社会解释,但近期趋势回归个体焦点,并借助Bion理论分析群体危机中转向个体的防御性反应。
This paper locates contemporary social psychological conceptions of group identity in the context of crises in forms of knowledge, and in the ways researchers have responded to crises in disciplinary identity. Forms of group social psychology that emerged within the European tradition of research promised a fully social account of human activity and experience, but recent trends of research in the discipline, even within group identity frameworks, have returned to the individual as a focus of study. The work of Bion is used to draw attention to the ways in which crises in group identity often provoke particular varieties of response which serve to defend the group, varieties of response which look to the individual as an escape from the threat or as a solution to the problem.