Psychology, the study of the mind and how it works, is sometimes considered a new science, but this is quite mistaken. It is possibly the oldest science and in its most essential features even a forgotten science. Perhaps this misconception arises because, except in modern times, psychology was incorporated into philosophic or religious systems
When modern psychology emerged as a discipline at the end of the nineteenth century, it was based on an analytic, biological view: interest was in the component parts particularly in the biological ‘realities’ of brain, memory and so on, that could be empirically studied
Psychological systems, can be divided into two chief categories
Firstly, systems which study man as they find him, or such as they suppose or imagine him to be. Modern ‘scientific’ psychology belongs to this category.
Secondly, the systems which study man from the point of view of what he may become, i.e., his possible evolution.
“When we pull back and get, for a moment, the ‘bird’s eye’ view of life, it reveals meanings that are unreasonable by the narrow focus of our usual worm’s eye view” By Colin Wilson
When modern psychology emerged as a discipline at the end of the nineteenth century, it was based on an analytic, biological view: interest was in the component parts particularly in the biological ‘realities’ of brain, memory and so on, that could be empirically studied
Psychological systems, can be divided into two chief categories
Firstly, systems which study man as they find him, or such as they suppose or imagine him to be. Modern ‘scientific’ psychology belongs to this category.
Secondly, the systems which study man from the point of view of what he may become, i.e., his possible evolution.
“When we pull back and get, for a moment, the ‘bird’s eye’ view of life, it reveals meanings that are unreasonable by the narrow focus of our usual worm’s eye view” By Colin Wilson
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