This article sets out two psychoanalytically informed conceptions of fantasy as a resource for reflexivity in research. First is the fantasy as a defensive structure that distorts our perception of reality, and the use of the researcher’s affective responses as an interpretive tool. Second is the fantasy as a signifying structure that constitutes the subject’s engagement in reality, foregrounding unconscious symbolic associations. These approaches are traced in the construction and analysis of interview data, exploring (a) a trajectory that interprets fantasy as a defense against difficult emotions, (b) the construction of free associations, and (c) symbolic material that disrupts the interpretation of fantasy as defense
In my analysis of instances of data emerging in my recent interview with academics I attempt to trac...
Three studies are described and examined in terms of the power dynamics created through the subjecti...
Recent years have seen psychoanalysis move out of the clinical area into the arena of empirical soci...
Many scholars have drawn attention to the affective power that aspects of discourse and practice exe...
The increasing importance of reflexivity within social research highlights the importance of the co...
Reflexivity in qualitative and ethnographic social science research can provide a rich source of dat...
This article offers an account of how a researcher's subjectivity might be seen as being stitched in...
There is a wide spectrum of ways in managing subjectivity intrinsic in research. This paper goes thr...
This paper highlights what psychoanalysis can add to discussions of reflexivity, by specifically des...
Gary Alan Fine (1983) wrote that understanding fantasy experiences has the potential of providing us...
This article addresses alternative models for a reflexive methodology and examines the ways in which...
This article contributes to the geographical literature on reflexivity by asking what it means to ta...
This article presents poststructural reflexivity as a way to both deconstruct the performativity of ...
Central to reflexivity is an awareness that the researcher and the object of study exist in a mutual...
Contents Part I: Introducing Reflexivity - Introduction;Chapter 1. The reflexive journey, mapping by...
In my analysis of instances of data emerging in my recent interview with academics I attempt to trac...
Three studies are described and examined in terms of the power dynamics created through the subjecti...
Recent years have seen psychoanalysis move out of the clinical area into the arena of empirical soci...
Many scholars have drawn attention to the affective power that aspects of discourse and practice exe...
The increasing importance of reflexivity within social research highlights the importance of the co...
Reflexivity in qualitative and ethnographic social science research can provide a rich source of dat...
This article offers an account of how a researcher's subjectivity might be seen as being stitched in...
There is a wide spectrum of ways in managing subjectivity intrinsic in research. This paper goes thr...
This paper highlights what psychoanalysis can add to discussions of reflexivity, by specifically des...
Gary Alan Fine (1983) wrote that understanding fantasy experiences has the potential of providing us...
This article addresses alternative models for a reflexive methodology and examines the ways in which...
This article contributes to the geographical literature on reflexivity by asking what it means to ta...
This article presents poststructural reflexivity as a way to both deconstruct the performativity of ...
Central to reflexivity is an awareness that the researcher and the object of study exist in a mutual...
Contents Part I: Introducing Reflexivity - Introduction;Chapter 1. The reflexive journey, mapping by...
In my analysis of instances of data emerging in my recent interview with academics I attempt to trac...
Three studies are described and examined in terms of the power dynamics created through the subjecti...
Recent years have seen psychoanalysis move out of the clinical area into the arena of empirical soci...