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A PRELUDE TO AN INQUIRY INTO THE INTERPLAY OF PERSONAL AND SOCIAL MEANINGS: FREUD, KELLY &BAUMAN
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Vladimir Miletić |
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Association for
Mental Health Promotion, Belgrade, Serbia
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Abstract
George
Kelly introduced the notion of public construction systems in volume 1
of his Psychology of Personal Constructs, but he did not elaborate
extensively on the subject because his focus was on psychotherapy and
possibilities of reconstruction of personal meanings. Since Kelly,
theory has
largely shifted its emphasis to the study of social production of
meaning. Even
though they share epistemological common ground, personal construct
theory and
social constructionist theories provide incommensurable descriptions of
human
meaning-making processes. To extend Kelly’s theory’s range of
convenience there
is a need to bridge the theoretical gap between the personal and social
meaning-making processes. In this article I will outline possible ways
of doing
this by providing bridges between Kelly and other important thinkers
such as
Freud and Zygmunt Bauman, and by outlining a possible way of looking at
the
relationship between personal and social meanings based on personal
construct
theory.
Keywords: meaning-making, sociality, commonality, personal construct theory.
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About the author
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 Vladimir Miletić, MD is a
Belgrade-based psychotherapist and research director at the Association for
Mental Health Promotion. He has published numerous articles in the field of
psychiatric epidemiology and is the co-editor of the Handbook of LGBT Psychology (2015). Since 2015, he teaches at the
Serbian Constructivist Association.
Contact: vdmiletic@gmail.com.
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Miletić, V. A
prelude to an inquiry into the interplay of personal and social meanings: Freud,
Kelly & Bauman.
Personal Construct Theory & Practice, 13, 192-199, 2016
(Retrieved from http://www.pcp-net.org/journal/pctp16/Miletic16.pdf)
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