Clinical psychosociology from interdisciplinarity to complexity
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If the psychosociology promoted by the journal Connexions was born and developed under the sign of interdisciplinarity, it also proved from the outset to be a much more ambitious project. Rather than entering into dialogue with other disciplines about an already defined issue, psychosociology sets out to designate a precise level of reality endowed with specificities that are irreducible to the knowledge produced by a body of knowledge. The irreducibility of the psychosociological level is a strong hypothesis which includes psychosociology among the sciences of complexity. Complex systems share very similar processes of construction and functioning in spite of the difference of their component materials. The exploration of two fundamental themes of complexity, emergent properties and the position of the observer/intervener, make it possible not only to uphold the “legitimacy” of psychosociology, but also to identify the challenges that transdisciplinarity raises for psychoanalysis as a theory and technique.
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