Rearticulating Motives

Morten Nissen, Dr.Psych, PhD, is professor at the Graduate School of Education, Aarhus University, in Copenhagen, Denmark. He studies theories and practices involving subjectivity, collectivity, knowledges, standards, aesthetics, and motives, mostly as relevant to youth work, counselling, education and social work. Coming from critical psychology and science studies, he calls his approach a ‘post-psychology of care’, a contributory research aiming for sustainable ways to understand and re-/present ourselves. Among many other texts in English and Scandinavian, he published The Subjectivity of Participation at Palgrave in 2012.

• Part I - Introduction.- 1.  Framing.- 2.  A Post-Psychology of Motivation.- Part II – From Needs to Meta-Motives.- 3.  Needs Beyond Function.- 4.  Re-Constituting Singular Situated Activities and Collectives.- 5.  The Materiality of Meta-Motives.- Part III – A Critique of Pragmatic Modelling.- 6.  The Post-Clinical Life of Signs.- Part IV – Aesthetics.- 7.  Motive and Motif – Aesthetic Documentation.- 8.  Poetic Seduction.- 9.  Performing Motives.- Part V – Modelling, Competence, and Research.- 10. Modelling and the Competence in Care.- 11. The Role of Theory in Prototyping Motives.