Hsiang-Chun Lin
Center of Life Study, Fo Guang University
This article outlines the Hsiang-Chun Lin Center of Life Study, Fo Guang University landscape and historic de-subjectivity structure of psychology and the helping profession in Taiwan during the past 3 decades. By presenting 2 subtexts of the author’s professional transformation: Being educated into a professional elite within mainstream academic context which was later reflexively reconstructed by personal marginal experience as well as a restart toward the searching of subjectivity in moving toward “the Others” and becoming “the We,” the present paper reflects on the appearance of professional development and the conditions of subjectivity awareness under the oppressive structures in the professional landscape which are dominated by positivism, colonized ideology and capital market commercialization. This paper posits an alternative: The contrast of the former oppressive structures with the radiation and resonance of an alternative community that upholds the space and path leading to professional subjectivity by means of situatedness and praxis in cooperative with the grass roots and the marginalized.
Keywords: subjectivity, situatedness, praxis, professional development