In the last decades there has been an increase of attention to happiness, and an rise of those areas that take it as an object of inquiry. An example of this is the proliferation of discourses about happiness in popular culture, specifically in self-help books linked to Positive Psychology. By using the foucauldian theoretical framework of governmentality is possible to analyze Psychology’s capacity to construct phenomena and promote particular subjectivities and forms of relationships akin to neoliberal rationality. In this work I pre-sent a discourse analysis of four self-help books. The texts’ discursive functions include a construction of happiness as an objectively and scientifically knowable object. They also define a desirable subjec...
The pursuit of happiness has always constituted one of human beings’ main concerns, and even today t...
Este ensayo, eminentemente teórico, parte de una revisión de lecturas comunicacionales, antropológic...
The study of well-being is especially interesting in the case of the elderly, located at a vital tim...
En las últimas décadas ha aumentado la atención que se le da a la felicidad, y se han ex-pandido las...
En este trabajo analizamos las semejanzas y las diferencias que existen entre el discurso sobre el s...
The following article is a critical analysis of the contemporary self-help literature centered upon ...
The aim is to address, from a doubly critical perspective, the «happinessturn», i.e., the elevation ...
Este artículo revisa un área emergente de la psicología que, frente al énfasis en estados negativos,...
In this paper, the psychological discourse about the subject provided both by positive psychology an...
The overwhelming presence of self-help books in the editorial production of recent decades prompts u...
O presente artigo destaca possíveis articulações exitentes na literatura sobre felicidade e espiritu...
El artículo que sigue es un análisis crítico de la autoayuda contemporánea para lograr la felicidad....
La psicología es una disciplina científica que ha logrado una transversalidad de la cual no ha queda...
The following pages are a work in the sociology of culture. I analyze critically the first period of...
Psychological wellness is a broad concept that includes social, subjective and psychological dimensi...
The pursuit of happiness has always constituted one of human beings’ main concerns, and even today t...
Este ensayo, eminentemente teórico, parte de una revisión de lecturas comunicacionales, antropológic...
The study of well-being is especially interesting in the case of the elderly, located at a vital tim...
En las últimas décadas ha aumentado la atención que se le da a la felicidad, y se han ex-pandido las...
En este trabajo analizamos las semejanzas y las diferencias que existen entre el discurso sobre el s...
The following article is a critical analysis of the contemporary self-help literature centered upon ...
The aim is to address, from a doubly critical perspective, the «happinessturn», i.e., the elevation ...
Este artículo revisa un área emergente de la psicología que, frente al énfasis en estados negativos,...
In this paper, the psychological discourse about the subject provided both by positive psychology an...
The overwhelming presence of self-help books in the editorial production of recent decades prompts u...
O presente artigo destaca possíveis articulações exitentes na literatura sobre felicidade e espiritu...
El artículo que sigue es un análisis crítico de la autoayuda contemporánea para lograr la felicidad....
La psicología es una disciplina científica que ha logrado una transversalidad de la cual no ha queda...
The following pages are a work in the sociology of culture. I analyze critically the first period of...
Psychological wellness is a broad concept that includes social, subjective and psychological dimensi...
The pursuit of happiness has always constituted one of human beings’ main concerns, and even today t...
Este ensayo, eminentemente teórico, parte de una revisión de lecturas comunicacionales, antropológic...
The study of well-being is especially interesting in the case of the elderly, located at a vital tim...