[lbo-talk] Subjectivity

Dennis Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Mon Apr 11 19:47:24 PDT 2005


Tully wrote:


> Psychology likes to think of itself as a science, but I
> see little there that qualifies.

No, it's just that mainstream psychology tends to study just a few aspects of human subjectivity, i.e. family relationships, life-crises and professional identities, things like that. That's why any psychological study of reality needs to be qualified by history, sociology, cultural studies, etc. (The reverse is also true. Any sociology which doesn't have a profound understanding of what motivates human beings won't be very effective at explaining the organization of human society.)

-- DRR



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