Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction: Throwing Psychosocial Studies in at the Deep End -- Transdisciplinarity -- The Paradox of the Psychosocial -- The Liminal -- D. W. Winnicott: Liminal Transition to Selfhood -- G. H. Mead: Sociality as Liminal Passage -- Liminal Affective Technologies -- Process Thought -- The Structure of the Book -- References -- 2: This Is Not … The Truth: On Fabulation -- Introduction -- Epoch-Making Symbolic Transformations: From Ritual to Myth, from Myth to Philosophy -- When Socrates Began to Fabulate -- Fabulation as a Psychosocial Concept: Bergson -- Bergson's Distinction: The Static/Closed (Infra-­intellectual) Versus the Dynamic/Open (Supra-intellectual) -- The Faculty of Fabulation as the Source of Static Morality and Religion in Bergson -- The Mystical Source of Dynamic Morality and Religion -- Between Fabulation and Intuition -- Deleuzian Fabulation -- Fabulation and the Experience of Liminality -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: This Is Not … Food: On Food for Thought -- Introduction -- Fabulous Knowledge: The Fable as a Perceptible Form Expressive of Feeling -- Distinguishing Representations and Presentations -- Distinguishing Discursive and Presentational Symbolism -- Feeling the Fable: From Uh oh! to Ah ha! -- Three Events -- Caught in the Act -- The Experience of Liminality: Devised and Spontaneous, Fabulated and Found, Tame and Wild, Staged and Unstaged5 -- From Art to Life -- Deep Symbolism -- Two Types of Experience Given by Two Modes of Perception -- Combining the Two Modes by Symbolic Reference -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: This Is Not … a Pipe: On the Complexity of Experience -- Introduction -- Foucault on Magritte: The Seeable and the Sayable -- An Unravelled Calligram -- The Principle of Resemblance -- Freeing Similitude from the Servitude of Resemblance.

Deep Empiricism -- Mind and Matter as a Useful but Distorting Simplification -- Pure Experience -- Experience as the Subjective Becoming of Objectivity -- Occasions of Experience as Embedded in Flows of Process: Rethinking Continuity and Discontinuity -- Multiple Streams of Process Which Are Mutually Presupposing -- The Emergent Self-Organization of Multiple Streams of Process Construed as a 'Parasitical Cascade' -- Shallow Empiricism and the Bifurcation of Nature -- This Is Not a Pipe: A Parasitical Cascade of Experience -- Power Distinguished from Image -- Image Distinguished from Proposition -- Proposition Distinguished from Enunciation -- Abstraction and Error -- Thinking the Parasitical Cascade with William James -- Power Conceived as 'Energetics' and Image Conceived as 'Percepts' -- Percepts Contrasted with Concepts -- Concepts Contrasted with Discourse -- Thinking the Parasitical Cascade with Whitehead -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: This Is Not … a Shock: On the Passage Between Multiple Worlds -- Introduction -- Schutz's Shocks -- The World of Daily Life -- Shock Experiences as Modifications of the Natural Attitude -- Common Features of the Shock Experiences -- Four Weakness with Schutz's Account of Shock Experiences -- This Is Not a Shock -- The Real Shocks Are Elsewhere -- The Need to Move Beyond Pure Phenomenology and Consider the Social Devices of the Liminal Affective Technologies -- Ignoring the Dynamic Relation Between 'Daily Life' and the Liminal Worlds -- Liminality and the Sacred -- The Pattern of the Rites of Passage -- This Is Not the Sacred -- Van Gennep and the Sacred -- The Pivoting of the Sacred and Its Ambivalent Nature -- Liminality as a Wavering Between Worlds -- Conclusion: Matters of Fact and Matters of Importance -- References -- 6: This Is Not … a Turn to Affect: Feeling Between Ontology and Anthropology.

Introduction -- 'Not Just Institutions But Moments': Contrasting Actualized Forms and Forms in the Process of Actualization -- Turning from Discourse to Affect -- The Textual Turn as a Protest on Behalf of Process -- The Affective Turn and Its Three Main Strands -- Questioning the Affect/Emotion Distinction -- Affect as Virtual -- Affect as Two-Sided Liminal Vector ('Feeling') -- Affect as Transformative Encounter -- Ontological Affect -- Affect as Encounter Understandable Under the Attribute of Bodily Extension -- Affect as Self-Creation -- Affect as Technical Scientific Concept -- Affect as Categorical Term -- Synthesis: Process Thought and 'Ontological Affect' -- Grades of Actual Occasions of Experience Within the Continuity of Feeling -- The Personal Identity of Human Beings -- Back to Humanity: Affectivity as the Experience of Liminality -- Devised or 'Staged' Liminality: The Self-Production of Affectivity and Affectivity as Self-Production -- Spontaneous or 'Unstaged' Liminal Affectivity -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Conclusion -- Psychosocial Transdisciplinarity -- Life as Transcendence -- Generative Paradox -- Ontological Liminality -- The Paradoxical Grounding of Ontological Liminality in Process Thought -- The Ontological Liminality of A. N. Whitehead -- The Ontological Liminality of G. H. Mead -- The Ontological Liminality of Georg Simmel -- Synthesis: Ontological Liminality Within a Theory of Limits -- Beyond Structure and Event: Passing One More Time from Ontology to Anthropology -- Conclusion -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

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