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Love your enemy? An aesthetic discourse analysis of self-transcendence in values-motivated altruism

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Inter-disciplinary academic enquiry shares the challenge to explore the social and ethical applications of research into today's globalised but increasingly complex world. Positive psychology examines how life can be well in this broader enquiry of the social and moral contexts of 'individual' happiness. In this it begins to embrace innovative, qualitative research methods alongside its earlier positivistic, scientific approach, in the social transition to enquire more inductively. This research therefore attempts two things. The substantive research explores how experiences of self- transcendence may emerge in the choice of altruistic values, to 'love an enemy', potentially at cost to personal 'selfhood' in pur- suit of a well society. Secondly, it presents the innovative 'aes- thetic discourse analysis' as a means to examine the motivational or moral impulse of personhood, where the self becomes 'sensible' to agentic change. It draws on Bakhtin's use of genre, emotional intonation and chronotope to interrogate the 'feltness' of self- conscious motivation. In three focus groups, people who are all committed to the self-transcendent value to love the Other, con- verse with Others from different backgrounds and belief systems. The research discovers that lived experiences of self-transcen- dence co-occur with ontological and epistemological re-shaping of self-consciousness.

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Francisco José Eiroa-Orosa has received funding from the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020 (2014–2020) under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No 654808.

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Articles publicats en revistes (Psicologia Clínica i Psicobiologia)

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Love your enemy? An aesthetic discourse analysis of self-transcendence in values-motivated altruism