Uncertainty as a constitutive condition of human experience: Paradoxes and complexity of sensemaking in the face of the crisis and uncertainty

RDL Picione, U Lozzi - … and Education: Subject, Action & Society, 2021 - sasjournal.org
The work presents an extensive review on the theme of the crisis of meaning generated by
uncertainty. Generally, uncertainty is considered an affective-cognitive condition of human …

A theoretically informed critical review of research applying the concept of liminality to understand experiences with cancer: Implications for a new oncological agenda …

P Stenner, R De Luca Picione - International Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Liminality was described more than 20 years ago as a major category explaining how
cancer is experienced. Since then, it has been widely used in the field of oncology research …

The affectivization of the public sphere: the contribution of psychoanalysis in understanding and counteracting the current crisis scenarios

S Salvatore, RDL Picione, V Bochicchio… - International Journal of …, 2021 - sasjournal.org
Current Western societies are characterized by a deep anthropological and socio-
institutional crisis. The many signs of this turmoil indicate a cree** affectivization of the …

Generalized Semiotic Functions of Borders' model: Contributions from cultural psychology, semiotics and psychoanalysis to-wards the understanding of borders in …

RDL Picione, G Marsico, L Tateo… - International Journal of …, 2022 - sasjournal.org
The article is an exploration of the bordering process, its theoretical foundations, its ontology-
dynamics and phenomenology in human experience. The research question is how …

Retiring Popper: Critical realism, falsificationism, and the crisis of replication

R Archer - Theory & Psychology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The recent so-called crisis of replication continues to dominate psychology's methodological
landscape. It is argued here that the apparent renaissance of Popperian thinking that …

Viktor von Weizsäcker's Notion of Pathic: Affective Liminality, Modalization of Experience and Illness

R De Luca Picione - Integrative psychological and behavioral science, 2024 - Springer
The work presents and discusses Viktor von Weizsäcker's notion of pathic. This concept
developed over the course of thirty years represents the culmination of his theoretical …

The otherness in the constitution of the psyche: arguments from psychoanalysis and cultural psychology

R De Luca Picione, MF Freda - New perspectives on inner speech, 2022 - Springer
A long-standing tradition of cultural and psychoanalytical studies has showed that human
psyche is not a monolithic object–namely, a static and not divisible entity; rather, it is a …

Trajectories of the notion of liminality: Identity, border, threshold, affectivity and spatio-temporal processes of transformation

R De Luca Picione, AM De Fortuna… - Culture & …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Liminality is a theoretical and methodological concept which originated within anthropology
at beginning of the 20th century through the work of Arnold van Gennep and later Victor …

Viktor von Weizsäcker's Gestaltkreis Theory. The Dynamic and Subjective Relationship of Perception and Movement

R De Luca Picione - Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 2024 - Springer
The paper presents Victor von Weizsäcker's theory of Gestaltkreis (ie 'circle of form'), which
offers an original theoretical contribution. It is rich of fruitful stimuli for understanding the …

Remaking time: Cultural semiotic transformations of temporality during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown

JN Ruse, P Rhodes, L Tateo… - … and Behavioral Science, 2023 - Springer
This paper investigates one aspect of meaning making that occurs in the wake of systemic
change. It addresses the question of how time is re-configured by socio-material changes …