Introduction: thinking the unconscious

Nicholls, Angus; Liebscher, Martin

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“…On the relation between Kant -a champion in the study of conscious processes -and the philosophical and psychological theories on the unconscious two collective monographs have been written in the recent past (Nicholls, A., Liebscher, M., 2010;Giordanetti P., Pozzo R., Sgarbi M., 2012). After reading these monographs, it becomes obvious that "with the possible exception of Leibniz, Immanuel Kant arguably determined the way in which unconscious phenomena were understood in nineteenth-century German thought more than any other philosopher of the eighteenth century" (Nicholls, A., Liebscher, M., 2010 p. 9).…”

Section: Jung On the Prospects Of Scientific Psychologymentioning

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I. Kant and C.G. JunG on the ProsPeCts of sCIentIfIC PsyCholoGy

Balanovskiy¹

2017

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This study aims to show a similarity of Kant’s and Jung’s approaches to an issue of the possibility of scientific psychology, hence to explicate what they thought about the future of psychology. Therefore, the article contains heuristic material, which can contribute in a resolving of such methodological task as searching of promising directions to improve philosophical and scientific psychology.To achieve the aim the author attempts to clarify an entity of Kant’s and Jung’s objections against even the possibility of scientific psychology and to find out ways to overcome those objections in Kant’s and Jung’s works. The main methods were explication, reconstruction and comparative analysis of Kant’s and Jung’s views.As a result it was found, that Kant and Jung allocated one and the same obstacles, which, on their opinion, prevent psychology to become a science in the strict sense. They are: 1) coincidence of subject and object in psychology; 2) impossibility to apply quantitative mathematic methods in psychology; 3) pendency of the issue of psychophysical parallelism. However, Kant and Jung indicated ways to resolve formulated by them fundamental difficulties. All those ways lay through the searching a principle of interaction and connection between the psychic and the physical.

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I. Kant and C.G. JunG on the ProsPeCts of sCIentIfIC PsyCholoGy

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2017

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“… 7. In German philosophy, there was a tradition of theorizing the “dark” (i.e., not visible) side of the mind (Nicholls & Liebscher, 2010). The idea of the unconscious can be traced back to Leibniz’s notion of petites perceptions .…”

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The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept

Wagoner

2023

Theory & Psychology

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Since the late 18th century, an organismic perspective has been contrasted with a mechanistic perspective. In the former, the whole dominates the parts, while in the latter, the parts dominate the whole. An organismic perspective further sees wholes as self-directed processes of progressive formation ( Bildung) rather than as static configurations or forms ( Gestalten). In sum, the organismic perspective focuses on living, developing, and interconnected wholes, in contrast to mechanical causality. This article explores the roots of the organismic perspective in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s scientific work (esp., his morphology), follows its influence through the 19th century, and highlights intersections within 20th-century psychology, particularly Heinz Werner’s organismic–developmental theory. Some key commonalities are a focus on the primacy of the whole, processes over products, the genetic method, (dis)continuities and transitions in development, the primordial unity of the senses, and the making of developmental comparisons. The organismic approach can be used today to revitalize our understanding of the dynamic constitution of culture and mind.

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Faflak¹

2012

A Handbook of Romanticism Studies

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Introduction: thinking the unconscious

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I. Kant and C.G. JunG on the ProsPeCts of sCIentIfIC PsyCholoGy

I. Kant and C.G. JunG on the ProsPeCts of sCIentIfIC PsyCholoGy

The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept

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