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Personality and Social Psychological Review (PSPR), the top-ranked journal in those subfields for the past decade, is beginning a new chapter.  While we will continue to publish impactful, integrative theory, we hope to usher in an era of publication aimed at socially-engaged work that expands the kinds of topics (and the kinds of authors!) who have typically published in the journal in the past.  In particular, we are seeking integrative theoretical scholarship that builds connections between personality and social psychology with other approaches across the broad field of psychology as well as approaches across the social sciences, other STEM fields, the humanities and arts, and to insights gleaned from applied work in the real world.  If you develop theory but haven’t thought of publishing in PSPR in the past, we hope you will give us another look.

For more information, please check out the editorial philosophy guiding this new chapter at the journal (https://spsp.org/publications/personality-and-social-psychology-review/editorial-philosophy) and the excellent work of our diverse editorial team (https://tinyurl.com/PSPRteam).

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NATION ON THE COUCH Inside South Africa’s Mind

by Wahbie Long

Focusing in on the notion of the political unconscious, first proposed by cultural critic Frederic Jameson, and emphasizing a strongly psychoanalytic lens, Wahbie Long argues that we need to excavate even more closely and with renewed attention, the inner lives of South Africans, in order to come closer to understanding South Africa’s many pressing problems today. The book rethinks South Africa’s seemingly intractable ‘external’ problems by attending to complex inner and yet perhaps also collective states, including shame, envy and impasse.

“Wahbie Long diagnoses contemporary South Africa with an explanatory depth that most analyses resist. As with any diagnosis of a troubled state, it is sometimes difficult to hear. Yet it carries the release that comes with understanding, as if for the first time. Insisting that we practice a more materialist psychology, he reveals how – in often unexpected ways – deep inequality, including landlessness, lies right inside the inner ruptures and the compulsion to repeat that is the political unconscious of this country today”. – Sarah Nuttall, Director, WISER

The author will be in conversation with Garth Stevens, Achille Mbembe and Hlonipha Mokoena.

Wahbie Long, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. A Mandela Mellon fellow at Harvard University, he is a recipient of the Early Career Achievement Award from the Society for the History of Psychology.

Wednesday, 28th July 2021
6:15pm (SA time)
Please register for this Zoom event in advance of the meeting