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Odd to think there is a single answer to the question posted in #1, Andy. Seems like this is some version of the discussion of paradigms and paradigm shifts with a "leading" element tossed in. mike On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote: > I have just started re-reading Vygotsky's "Historical Crisis" from the > beginning, for the first time for many years (I have looked a cetain "hot" > topics, but not read it from the beginning for years). There is a pair of > insights which he offers which I'd like to remind people of. > > (1) He says that at different stages in the history of psychology, one or > another branch of psychology plays the "leading role." First the psychology > of the normal adult person, then pathology and then the psychology of the > unconscious. He asks: "Which discipline should lead, unify, and elaborate > the basic concepts, principles, and methods, verify and systematise the data > of all other areas? > > He then goes on to consider the same problem in a slightly different way: > "What makes the most diverse phenomena into psychological facts - from the > salivation in a dog to the enjoyment of a tragedy, what do the ravings of a > madman and the rigorous computations of the mathematician share?" In other > words, what is the concept of psychology and its subject matter? He then > goes on to look at three competing answers, based on reflections of the > proposed leading roles to be given to subjective psychology, animal > psychology or psychoanalysis: "For general psychology the three answers > mean, respectively that it is a science of (1) the mental and its > properties, or (2) behaviour; or (3) the unconscious." This leads very > directly to a consideration of the concept of psychology in terms of a unit > of analysis. > > Could we give an answer to the question as to which branch of general > psychology plays the "leading role" today, in these very > historical/objective terms? > > Andy > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Hegel Summer School: The New Atheism: Just Another Dogma? < > http://ethicalpolitics.org/seminars/hss2011.htm> > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca