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Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane. Karl Kraus

is a field that is not looking for facts, but for their significations, and so seeks only to grasp the essence of the phenomenon.

And, precisely because psychology is not looking for facts, but for their significations, it will abandon the method of inductive introspection or empirical external observation and seek only to grasp and to fix the essence of the phenomena. (sartre 'basic writings' : 69)

is a superficiality because its main concern is with the very narrow field of consciousness rather than with existence more generally.

Hence for Heidegger, psychology and the attention to consciousness are superficialities. For him they asume an understanding of the manners of existence of Da-sein and beings generally, in order to be understood adequately.

is an epistemic discourse marked by ambiguity and a clinical practice uncomfortable with that ambiguity and demanding clarity and norms.

For Foucault, psychology is an epistemic discourse marked by ambiguity and a clinical practice uncomfortable with that ambiguityand demanding clarity and norms.

is as useless as directions for using poison.

Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison. Karl Kraus

is, in the new born, one and the same thing as physiology. Psychology is a gradual extension from physiology.

I heard it said that it is the newborn that physiology and psychology are one (John Davis). This is a good start. Psychology is a gradual extension from physiology. There is no need for quarrelling over the date of this this change. It could be variable according to events. However, the birthdate could be taken as a time when big changes occur in this field, so that the premature infant may be far better off psychologically in an incubator, whereas a postmature infant would not thrive in one but would need human arms and body contact.

is inseparable from biology, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body. Carl Jung

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