Postcognitive psychology

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Postcognitive psychology is the postmodern condition of a psychology yet to come as proposed by theorist Matthew Giobbi. [1] The term postcognitive was first used in Giobbi's book A Postcognitive Negation: The Sadomasochistic Dialectic of American Psychology . [2] Psychologists and theorists have discussed the post-cognitive [3] [4] which Giobbi differentiates by exclusion of the hyphen. Giobbi's postcognitive is a folding upon itself in a non-linear fashion which transcends the narrative function of the hyphen, thus leaving the field on a plateau of new ways of doing psychology. [5]

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