[Xmca-l] Re: Doctoral Theses and autobiography

[Huw Lloyd]

If you're studying Vygotsky or any significant theory pertaining to the
social sciences (in the UK), then you'll more like be fighting through.
Because so much of PhD social science is streamlined through "qualitative"
and "quantitative" "methods" that skirt anything troublesome like theory.

Best,
Huw

On 18 October 2014 02:14, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:

> Recently I read an interesting paper. By one Rumen Petrov, it is an
> autobiographical essay on doing his PhD. It was fascinating.
> In the course of this he says "many Doctoral theses are various forms of
> working through." Petrov is a Bulgarian Freudian with an interest in
> Vygotsky, so "working over" means catharsis, or perezhivanie.
> I thought this was a nice observation.
> Are all you PhD students going through this?
> Andy
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