Papers

Publications

Monographs

De Vos, J. (2018). La psicologización y sus vicisitudes. Hacia una crítica psico-política. Mexico City, Mexico: Paradiso.
De Vos, J. (2016). Neurologization and its antecedents. The metamorphoses of the brain. New York, NY, USA: Palgrave Macmillan.
De Vos, J. (2013). Psychologization and the subject of late modernity. New York, NY, USA: Palgrave Macmillan.
De Vos, J. (2012). Psychologisation in times of globalisation. London, UK: Routledge.
De Vos, J. (2011). Psychologisering in tijden van globalisering: een kritische analyse van psychologie en psychologisering [Psychologisation in times of globalisation. A critical analysis of psychology and psychologisation]. Leuven, België ; Den Haag, Nederland: Acco.

Edited books

De Vos, J., & Pluth, E. (Eds.). (2015). Neuroscience & Critique. Exploring the Limits of the Neurological Turn. London: Routlege.

Publications in international journals with peer review

De Vos, J. (2017) Neuroscience and a place for critique. KRITIKOS, 14, Summer.
De Vos, J. (2017) No hay futuro sin crítica de la psicología: una interrogación del marxismo al psicoanálisis. TEORIA Y CRITICA DE LA PSICOLOGIA, 9, 16–35.
De Vos, J. (2016). The death and resurrection of (psy)critique. The case of neuroeducation. FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE, 21(1), 129–145.
De Vos, J. (2016). Kritiek in tijden van neurowetenschap [Critique in times of neuroscience]. DE UIL VAN MINERVA, 29(1), 20–39.
De Vos, J. (2014). Deneurologizing education? From psychologisation to neurologisation and back. STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION, 1–17.
De Vos, J. (2014). Which materialism? Questioning the matrix of psychology, neurology, psychoanalysis and ideology critique. THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY, 24(1), 176–192.
De Vos, J. (2014). The iconographic brain: a critical philosophical inquiry into (the resistance of) the image. FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE, 8, 1–13.
De Vos, J. (2014). Psychologisering en moderniteit [Psychologisation and modernity]. ETHIEK EN MAATSCHAPPIJ, 16(2-3-4), 47–60.
De Vos, J. (2013). Interpassivity and the political invention of the brain: Connolly’s neuropolitics versus libet's veto-right. THEORY & EVENT, 16(2).
De Vos, J. (2013). Wat is psy-kritiek? [What is psy-critique?] ETHIEK & MAATSCHAPPIJ, 15(1), 69–93.
De Vos, J. (2013). Psychoanalytisch materialisme: een politiek filosofische benadering [Psychoanalytic materialism: a political philosophical approach]. PSYCHOANALYTISCHE PERSPECTIEVEN, 31(4), 399–420.
De Vos, J. (2013). The universality of the virtual absence of critical psychology in Flanders: some personal remarks. ANNUAL REVIEW OF CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 10, 391–407.
De Vos, J. (2013). The subject of the neuropsy-sciences stripped bare by her bachelors, even. QUADERNS DE PSICOLOGIA, 15(1), 95–106.
De Vos, J. (2013). Como un zombi en Pompeya: el sujeto neurológico en su Ciberágora [Like a zombie in Pompei: the neurological subject in its Ciberagora]. REVISTA TEKNOKULTURA, 10(3), 719–745.
De Vos, J. (2013). “Ahora que lo sabes, ¿cómo te sientes?”: el experimento de Stanley Milgram y la psicologización [Now that you know, how do you feel? The milgram experiment and psychologization]. AESTHETHIKA, 9(1), 48–75.
De Vos, J. (2013). Psychologization and sexuality: the politics of the obscene. JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR SEXUAL ETHICS & POLITICS, 1(1), 49–62.
De Vos, J. (2012). The deadlock of Husserl’s life-world: from a critique of psychologism to psychologization. THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY, 22(3), 324–341.
De Vos, J. (2011). From La Mettrie’s voluptuous machine man to the perverse core of psychology. THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY, 21(1), 67–85.
De Vos, J. (2011). The psychologization of humanitarian aid: skimming the battlefield and the disaster zone. HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES, 24(3), 103–122.
De Vos, J. (2011). Depsychologizing torture. CRITICAL INQUIRY, 37(2), 286–314.
De Vos, J. (2011). Psychologization or the discontents of psychoanalysis. JOURNAL FOR THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF CULTURE & SOCIETY, 16(4), 354–372.
De Vos, J. (2010). Christopher Lasch’s the culture of narcissism the failure of a critique of psychological politics. THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY, 20(4), 528–548.
De Vos, J. (2010). From Milgram to Zimbardo: the double birth of postwar psychology/psychologization. HISTORY OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES, 23(5), 156–175.
De Vos, J. (2010). Beyond psychologisation: the non-psychology of the Flemish novelist Louis Paul Boon. ANNUAL REVIEW OF CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 8, 201–215.
Gordo, A., & De Vos, J. (2010). Psychologism, psychologising and de-psychologisation. ANNUAL REVIEW OF CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY.
De Vos, J. (2010). Hauntology or the return of the real man: edging the Žižek-Laclau controversy on populism. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ZIZEK STUDIES, 4(3), 1–21.
De Vos, J. (2009). On cerebral celebrity and reality TV: subjectivity in times of brain-scans and psychotainment. CONFIGURATIONS, 17(3), 259–283.
De Vos, J. (2009). The Academy of Everyday Life—Psychology, hauntology, and psychoanalysis. (D. Aoki, Ed.) EDUCATIONAL INSIGHTS, 13(4), 1–17.
De Vos, J. (2009). Now that you know, how do you feel? The milgram experiment and psychologization. ANNUAL REVIEW OF CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 7, 223–246.
De Vos, J. (2008). From Panopticon to Pan-psychologisation. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ZIZEK STUDIES, 2(1), 1–20.
De Vos, J. (2006). Psychologisation: psychoanalysis’ (double) political appointment with history, the accoyer amendment revisited. JOURNAL FOR THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF CULTURE & SOCIETY, 11(3), 304–322.
De Vos, J. (2005). On psychology and other symptoms. JOURNAL FOR LACANIAN STUDIES, 3(2), 258–270.

Publications without peer review

De Vos, J. (2015). Slavoj Žižek’s ideologiekritiek geïntroduceerd vanuit Lacans begrip van het Reële [Slavoj Žižek’s critique of ideology introduced from Lacan’s notion of the Real]. VLAAMS MARXISTISCH TIJDSCHRIFT, 49(3), 108–118
De Vos, J. (2012). Iedereen psycholoog! Een schuinse blik op psychologisering en moderniteit [Everybody psychologist! Looking awry at psychologisation and modernity]. In T. Claes (Ed.), Door denken en doen : essays bij het werk van Ronald Commers (pp. 273–288). Gent: Academia Press.
De Vos, J. (2012). Narcissism and the DSM V: Lasch and the political leftovers of the debate. (A) (SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.), 8(2), 49–61.
De Vos, J. (2012). Een schuinse kijk op de recente Žižek-hetze en het psychoanalyse-bashen in Vlaanderen [An awry look at the recent Žižek controversy and the bashing of psychoanalysis in Flanders]. VLAAMS MARXISTISCH TIJDSCHRIFT, 46(1), 95–100.
De Vos, J. (2012). Psychoanalyse tussen huid en vlees: een gedecentreerd materialisme tussen psy-wetenschappen en filosofie [Psychoanalysis between skin and flesh: a decentred materialism between psy-sciences and philosophy]. FILOSOFIE (ANTWERPEN), 22(4), 15–21.
De Vos, J. (2010). De Paradijsvogel: Boon’s proefschrift in de non-psychologie [The Bird of Paradise: Boon’s dissertation in non-psychology]. BOELVAAR PROEF (GENTBRUGGE), 10(3-4), 115–126.
De Vos, J. (2008). Populisme: close-reading van de Žižek-Laclau controverse [Populism: a close-reading of the de Žižek-Laclau controversy]. VLAAMS MARXISTISCH TIJDSCHRIFT, 42(1), 46–52.
De Vos, J. (2006). De speelplaats van het Vlaams Belang: over politiek en psychologisering [The playground of the Vlaams Belang: on politics and psychologisation]. VLAAMS MARXISTISCH TIJDSCHRIFT, 40(3), 16–18.
De Vos, J. (2006). Socialisme of het recht op waarheid [Socialism or the right to the truth]. VLAAMS MARXISTISCH TIJDSCHRIFT, 40(1), 36–37.
De Vos, J. (2005). Expeditie Robinson: homo lupus, psychologicus of cynicus? [Expedition Robinson: homo lupus, psychologicus or cynicus? STREVEN, 72(5), 456–461.
De Vos, J. (2004). Meer psychologie: over het fenomeen “psy-infotainment [More psychology: on the phenomenon of psy-infotainment]. STREVEN, 73(11), 1021–1021.

Book Chapters

De Vos, J. (2018). Neuro-Edukation und Kritik: ein Blick nach vorn. In: Franz Kasper Krönig (ed.) Critical Glossary Childhood Pedagogy. Frankfurt: Beltz Juventa
De Vos, J. (2017). The neuroturn in education: between the Scylla of psychologization and the Charybdis of digitalization? In M. Vandenbroeck (Ed.), Constructions of neuroscience in early childhood education. London: Routledge
De Vos, J. (2016). De la autoayuda psicológica, la psicología pop y el gimnástico cerebral hasta el “nudge”. El fin del sujeto psicologizado y neurologizado? [From psychological self-help, pop psychology and neurobics to “nudge”. The end of the psychologised and neurologised subject?]. In Roberto Rodríguez (Ed.), Contrapsicología. Madrid, DADO Ediciones.
De Vos, J. (2016). What is Critique in the Era of the Neurosciences? . In J. De Vos & E. Pluth (Eds.), Neuroscience and Critique. Exploring the Limits of the Neurological Turn. London: Routledge.
De Vos, J. (2015). Self-help and pop psychology. In Ian Parker (Ed.), Handbook of Critical Psychology. London, UK: Routledge.
De Vos, J. (2014). Psychologization. In Thomas Teo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of critical psychology (pp. 1547–1551). New York, NY, USA: Springer.
De Vos, J. (2014). Laclau/Hegemony. In R. Butler (Ed.), The Žižek dictionary (pp. 162–165). Durham, UK: Acumen.
De Vos, J. (2014). Between the skin and the flesh: the modern subject and its materiality. In F. Ensslin & C. Klink (Eds.), Aesthetics of the flesh (pp. 2–13). New York, NY, USA: Sternberg Press.
De Vos, J. (2013). Ψυχολογία και ψυχολογιοποίηση: μια κριτική των πειραμάτων του Milgram και του Zimbardo [From Milgram to Zimbardo: the double birth of postwar psychology/psychologization]. In M. Mentinis (Ed.), ΕΠΑΝΟΡΙΖΟΝΤΑΣ ΤΟ ΨΥΧΟΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΟ : Κείμενα κριτικής κοινωνικής ψυχολογίας (pp. 97–132). Athens, Greece: Epikentro.
De Vos, J. (2008). The double denial and the double bind of psychologization: the Accoyer Amendment revisited. Psychoanalytic practice and state regulation (pp. 101–112). Karnac.

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Some interviews

Bijdrage in artikel "Neuropolitiek: de strijd om het brein van de kiezer” Door Marnix Verplancke, De Morgen: 26-09-2016.
Bijdrage in artikel “That’s psychotainment!” Door Lieve Van de Velde, De Standaard: 27-10-2015.
Iedereen naar de psycholoog!(?) Interview in Peeters en Pichal, Radio 1 (nr 5, 2012) door Annette van der Elst
Kijk dit ben jij - Interview in Filosofie Magazine (nr 5, 2012) door Annette van der Elst
God is een psycholoog - Interview in P-Magazine (27/03/2012) door Wim Swinnen
Bijdrage in artikel "Zelfkennis : Hoe riskant is doe-het-zelfpsychologie?" in Psychologies Magazine, maart 2012
Bijdrage in artikel "Mag ik het niet gewoon verdringen" in De Muze, bijlage van De Morgen, 28/01/2012
Psychologisering is volksverlakkerij. Interview door Marnix Verplancke, eerst verschenen in De Morgen, 04/01/2012
De pretentie van de psychologie. Interview Filosoof Jan De Vos door Kathleen Vereecken, eerst verschenen in De Standaard, 19/11/2011
Het leven is meer dan een reeks leermodules. Drie vragen aan Jan De Vos, in Psychologies, Oktober 2011
Interview op Radio Klara in het programma Trio 24/09/2011
Opiniestuk "We weten hoe langer hoe minder wat een mens is", De Morgen 11/10/2007