Rotaru Segall, Alin (2023) Theoros Sacer - or how ideology abandons a theory-. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
In this paper I try to understand why Kazimierz Dąbrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration (T.P.D.) (1964) has failed to be kept ‘alive’ after the death of its creator. Finding the theory to be sufficiently abundant in terms of its falsifiability potential to improve knowledge, I look towards possible cultural and political explanations in an attempt to explain its downfall. I argue that Agamben’s theory of the Homo Sacer, specifically the mechanisms of sovereignty and exclusion it describes, explained well why a theory like T.P.D. would be abandoned, regardless of its scientific quality. I therefore argue that T.P.D. (among other theories of development) could be better understood through the concept of theoros sacer (concept proposed by the author).
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Derksen, M. and Burman, J.T. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2023 11:47 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Feb 2023 11:47 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1646 |
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