Continuity and Discontinuity between the Psychological World and the Biological World
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Continuity and Discontinuity between the Psychological World and the Biological World Masayoshi Morioka 1 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract In this commentary paper I try to make complementarily more discussion on two question. First, the target paper (Zagaria, Andò, & Zennaro, 2020) points out the lack of continuity in the concepts used in psychology. The authors aim for a rigorous definition which is necessary to rebuild mud figures of psychology, but is that the only direction? Second, the evolutionary psychology seems to allow for a diversity of methodologies, but is there any limitations and possibilities of approaching the origin of the mind from biologically based methods? To answer this question, I went back and examined Freud’s earlier studies and Vygotsky’s theoretical considerations from the history of psychology. As a result, it was pointed out that the shift from the biological world to the psychological world had a fundamental problem of conversion from quantity to quality. As a clue to its elucidation, I considered on the semiotic mediation, the psychological causality, and the work of apperception. Keywords Biological lines . Historical lines . Quantity to quality . Semiotic mediation .
Apperception
“Life itself never dies. Only creatures here die.” Viktor von Weizsäcker “Gestaltkreis” (1940)
* Masayoshi Morioka [email protected]
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College of Comprehensive Psychology and Graduate School of Human Science, Ritsumeikan University, Ibarakishi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Integr Psych Behav
Introduction The target article, which addresses the psychological crisis head-on, is decisive. According to the authors, psychology remains at a stage before achievement in the academic paradigm. The authors carefully elaborate the key concepts of psychology and point out the ambiguity in the definitions of basic concepts. Constructing concepts based on experimental data is appropriate to distinguish psychology from philosophical and other humanistic methods. On the other hand, a chronological, historical perspective is essential. The target paper points out the lack of continuity in the concepts used in psychology. I sympathize with the sense of crisis in their claim that if contaminants are not removed from psychology to lay and strengthen an academic base that can gain consensus, it will collapse like a statue with feet of clay. What is needed to rebuild the clay feet of the statue? I want to give the clay statue with powerful feet called psychology a breath of inspiration. A metaphorical expression, the clay can regain its animation by breathing psychism on it. The words “animation” and “psychism”, these concepts cannot be ignored in the history of the formation of the academic discipline of psychology. The authors aim for a rigorous definition and refinement of the path of publicization, which is necessary to rebuild mud figures. However, is that the only direction? That is the first question in this comment paper. As a new paradigm of psychology, the aut
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