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Ideologies of the Speaking Subject in the Psychotherapeutic Theory and Practice of Carl Rogers
Author(s) -
Smith Benjamin
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of linguistic anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.463
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1548-1395
pISSN - 1055-1360
DOI - 10.1525/jlin.2005.15.2.258
Subject(s) - ideology , expression (computer science) , semiotics , subject (documents) , innovator , sociology , psychoanalysis , epistemology , psychology , psychotherapist , philosophy , computer science , intellectual property , politics , library science , political science , law , programming language , operating system
This article examines ideologies of the speaking subject in the psychotherapeutic theory and practice of the American psychotherapeutic innovator Carl Rogers. I consider both Rogerss explicit theorizing about and the interactional expression of Rogerian concepts such as nondirective therapy and real or authentic selfhood. These ideologies are analyzed as crucially targeting the relative denotational explicitness and the calibrational qualities of the expression of Goffmanian commitment. Beyond this immediate goal, the analysis aims to explore the wider historical significance of Rogerian therapy and to offer a semiotically sophisticated account of the relationship between ideology and commitment.