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This paper aimes to contribute to the analyzes of Caldas and Wood Jr (1997) concerning to the concept of identity. That concept has been developed in Organization Studies under the propositions of Albert and Whetten (1985). In that way, identity concept has been defined by the following characteristics: centrality, distinctiveness and continuity. Nevertheless, a new paradigm has been emerging within social science. In this paper, we present a synthesis on how the concept of identity has been discussed in Social Psychology and Cultural Studies. For both theoretical perspectives, the ideas of centrality and durability are put into doubt, as identity is seen as dynamic and fragmentary. Besides that, we intend to show how the new paradigm is getting formed within Organizational Studies, especially considering international context. Considering that the emerging organizational ideas concerning identity show proximity with those proposed by Social Psychology and Cultural Studies, we raise possible questions that the new paradigm will have to face. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss some questions worked in the end-of-course monograph "Eu sou uma obra de arte, o museu é um mundo", which involved Helio Oiticica artistic proposal and the aproach of his work with an alternative way of thinking psychology: Actor-Network Theory (ANT). So we have a work which unites psychology and artes and discuss practices in psychology. Thus to support this discussion we work making a mess in the way of think and do psychology with the aport of ANT's authors dialoguing with Helio Oiticica. This discussion includes a lot of actors and compose a politic proposal different of dominating logic in psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents a reflexion about the social-environmental psychology as a social psychology that aims to articulate psychology, education and environment. It is proposed a type of social-environmental intervention thought as an original and innovative strategy, whose pedagogical influences would transcend the social-environmental field to which is directed, reverberating its effects to beyond its boundaries. We search, with this reflexion, to recover the thought (near the Frankfurt School) of Kurt Lewin, transposing its postulations to the contemporary world. Thus, the proposed social-environmental intervention would consist in a draft of a cultural reconstruction method of the present in the direction of a utopian future, committed with the democracy and emancipation, a way to a true pacific revolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The analysis of some of the German expressionist films produced in the early twentieth century enables us point to the existence of common and recurring themes such as the voluntary submission of individuals, the mass manipulation by leaders, the split personality, and the double. Although such issues seem to refer, at first, only to the characters' psychological disorders, Sigfried Kracauer seeks to demonstrate the relationship between the topics covered in expressionist films and Germany's social reality in the postwar period. In this perspective, the aim of this paper is to discuss the relationship between aspects of the individual psychic reality, especially alienation, mental alienation, and estrangement produced by social reality. It puts together the strange (Das Unheimliche) discussed by Freud, the concept of estrangement (Entfremdung) by Marx, and the effect of estrangement in art (Verfremdungseffekt) by Bertolt Brecht, discussed by Herbert Marcuse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we are developing a reflection that takes the fear as a central connection between the world of news and readers, listeners and viewers. The starting point is the acceptance that such a feeling is a kind of social representation that establishes a kind of consensus among the population, in this special case of Rio de Janeiro, producing meanings of urban space. For both, especially to cause a rapprochement between the fields of communication and psychology, regain some contributions of two famous authors, Mikhail Bakhtin and Lev Vygotsky, particularly with regard to the dimension of culture as a structuring element of social interaction. Secondly, we will consider the question of the centrality of culture, highlighting the ideological struggle around which produces the hegemonic construction of meanings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the dimension of alterity in Hans W. Loewald's work, presenting and discussing some of his theoretical conceptions. After a brief presentation of the author and his work, some formulations and concepts related to his original conception of reality are explained and debated, putting in evidence the place of alterity in his work. These conceptualizations are: the levels of ego-reality integration; the Oedipus Complex' relational understanding; and the idea of a continuous psychic constitution, in which the present time dimension acquires relevance. After that, his late formulations are presented, based on the Freud's second drives theory and his revised concept of projection. The ideas of unison and reverberation as empathy and the projection concept evidence the double presence of driving forces - in the ego and in the other ones -become related to the experience of knowledge about himself and about the world. These ideas especially evidence the dimension of alterity in Loewald's work [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is about the theorical methodological links between Community Psychology and Liberating Education, discussing their social ideological and ethical political proposals. It concerns an unfolding of a research conducted by the Núcleo de Psicologia Comunitária (Nucom) of the Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), with the intention of contributing to the epistemological development of the theorical methodological milestone of the Community Psychology. In order to reach this aim, we made a theorical revision, exploring, in the trajectory of the constitution of Liberating Education and Community Psychology, the meeting of both theories, specifically in the Ceará state. This review is also based on theorical methodological elements that identify points of convergences and integration between both disciplines, as well as the social ideological foundations which reflect their view of the world. So, we point to a relevant epistemological consistency related to the integration of Liberating Education in the theorical milestone of Community Psychology, giving theorical methodological cohesion and ethical political coherence to this liberating psychological praxis, in the axis of theory, praxis and social compromise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The last years have been marked by a disconstruction and reconstruction in the traditional ways of social and individual organization. The classic ideas regarding the future were substituted by ordinances for the end of "old" concepts as: the social-democracy, the welfare state, the end of history etc., making possible speculations besides on the end of the modernity. Though, some concepts stay current and request an analysis of his meaning. The objective of this paper is presents some considerations concerning the mass concepts and identity. For so much, we bring the author's contributions as: Ciampa, Bauman, Hall, Laclau, Negri & Hardt and Virno, that have been discussing, rebuilting and rethoughting these concepts. Finally, the text intends to present the possibility of work starting from the crowd concepts and identity as metamorphosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]