Psiconology: The Study of Images Produced by Psychology in Light of Mitchell’s Iconology

Abstract In Psychology, the pictorial phenomenon has traditionally been debated in the fields of art psychology and psychology of images. We added to the discussion Mitchell’s Iconology, centred on the discursive study of images. We worked with research projects in psychology found in the CAPES (Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education) Evaluation of 2012 dealing with pictorial phenomenon. From the abstracts of these projects, we extracted six thematic units-image-mind, image-representation, image-stimulus, image-record, image-expression, image-production-defined by specific iconological associations. From the latter, image-production, we identified a field worthy of specific research: the debate about pictorial production within the very field of psychology, significant today because of the increasing use of visual methods and something which we called psiconology.

摘要 在心理学领域中，图像现象长期以来始终是艺术心理学与意象心理学两大研究方向的探讨议题。本次研究引入了以图像话语研究为核心的米切尔图像学（Iconology），拓展了相关讨论范畴。我们选取了2012年巴西联邦研究生教育支持与评估署（CAPES，Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education）开展的心理学评估项目中，与图像现象相关的研究课题作为研究素材。从这些项目的摘要文本中，我们提取出六个由特定图像学关联所界定的主题单元：意象-心智（image-mind）、意象-表征（image-representation）、意象-刺激（image-stimulus）、意象-记录（image-record）、意象-表达（image-expression）以及意象-创作（image-production）。其中，针对意象-创作（image-production）这一主题单元，我们发掘出一个值得开展专门研究的领域：心理学领域内部关于图像创作的探讨。随着视觉研究方法的应用愈发广泛，该探讨在当下具有重要的研究价值，我们将这一领域命名为心理图像学（psiconology）。