Psychology Thinkers Definitions

Psychology (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠born of the experience of Unreason, as the science of the individual was born of death built into medicine.

Psychology (n.) thought ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to measure and justify madness, and ends by having to justify itself before madness — before the excess of Nietzsche, Van Gogh, Artaud.

Psychology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an epistemic discourse marked by ambiguity and a clinical practice uncomfortable with that ambiguity and demanding clarity and norms.

Psychology (n.) as ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a means of cure is organized around punishment: before it seeks to relieve, it inflicts suffering within the rigor of a moral necessity.

Psychology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠yet another institutionalized 'form of knowing' that makes up a disciplinary society, the core concept of foucault's philosophy.

Psychology (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠born not as the truth of madness but as the sign that madness had been cut off from its truth, unreason — a phenomenon adrift, an enigma with no truth but what could reduce it.

Psychology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what Ideology, the analysis of representations, shrank into — squeezed between an anthropology of man made alien to himself and an economics of mechanisms outside consciousness.

Psychology (n.) needed ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the new norms that industrial society imposed on individuals, and sociology the threats to social balance after the French Revolution; yet man becoming an object of science is no phenomenon of opinion but an event in the order of knowledge.

Psychology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠dated by historians to Weber's compass measuring sensations; but its new stage began with Mettray's professionals of discipline, normality and subjection, sheltered between medicine and the courts — the technicians of indiscipline founded a family.

Psychology (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠only' discovers the results of the practices which made it possible. it is not simply that the object of psychology is not universally present, but co-original with the dependent on the the emergence of psychology, as a critique of psychology's interpretation of its own scientificity might have shown.