One Step Further: Where to Put the Subjectivity of Human Mind in Efforts of Integrating Psychology?

Aruna Wu, Shuangshuang Xu*

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Abstract

In this paper we tried to deepen Zagaria, Andò and Zennaro’s reflection on the problem of integrating psychology in their paper “Psychology: A Giant with Feet of Clay” (Zagaria et al. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 54, 3, 2020). Psychology obtained this question from the uniqueness of its objects and it is an unavoidable question because of the social reality of modernity. We went back to the philosophical transitions on subject and proposed that Karl Marx’s thinking on the subjectivity of objective faculties can be the first principle for different schools and sub-disciplines, as it conceptualizes human beings as natural beings but with its consciousness of being from its social praxis. Thus, it provides a starting point of humanized psychology. Further direction and tasks for psychology is also examined under a call of psychology going back and entering into the life world.

Original languageEnglish
JournalIntegrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
Volume54
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)597-603
Number of pages7
ISSN1932-4502
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2020

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Keywords

  • Life world
  • Psychology
  • Social praxis
  • Subjectivity

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