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This study traces the impact of psychological charge in the deviation of religious intercourse of the poet Ahmed Matar. The study analyzed the poems to reach the psychology of the poet and the incentives that qualify him to be sarcastic or angry or desperate, and highlighted the psychology of the poet and the recipient as well. The study also investigated how these interactive poems have produced different feelings other than laughter and mockery at a time, pain and sadness at times, and enthusiasm and resistance at another time. Moreover, the study examined the poet›s ability to receive the meanings of deviant poems, and tried to trace what is happening to him perceptually regarding the relationship between reality and psychological theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the issue of the researcher’s attitude to his object (in particular, on the possibility of adopting a critical stance). This question concerns the whole realm of social sciences; here, it is tackled in the light of the author’s experience in argumentation studies. She distinguishes three perspectives (descriptive positioning, normative positioning, militant positioning) and compares two analyses she produced of some political discourse. These analyses obey different logics (an epistemic and a political one), and display contrasting discursive and enunciative characteristics. While admitting that caring for critical activism is legitimate, the author concludes to the necessity of acknowledging and maintaining the split between what falls under science and what falls under politics in argumentation studies.