Discursive is an adjective from the word discourse and may refer specifically to: Discursive complex, a methodological device in psychoanalysis Discursive democracy, any system of political decisions based on some tradeoff of consensus decision making and representative democracy Discursive meditation, in Christian prayer Discursive psychology, a school of psychology Discursive reasoning Discursive repetition, or Repetition (rhetorical device), the repetition of a certain type of discourse in linguistics