Subjective wellbeing between organizational bonds and cultural contaminations

Positive Psychology has recently attempted at “enlarging the paradigm”, explaining the understanding of the human experience of the world. By contrast, for Critical Psychology, “enlarging the paradigm”, means moving away from an individualist conceptualisation of the psychological. The present paper aims at “redistributing the Psychological” toward directions already marked by cultural and discursive conceptions of human experience. Within a trans-disciplinary frame, labelled as Psycho-semiotics, Diatextual Analysis has been adopted to investigate the rhetorical modes used by socially excluded enunciators (drug users, immigrants, atypical workers, elderly people and some categories of churchgoer) to elaborate their own experience of well-being through affective labour and self care.