Criticism of the Foundations of Psychology: Psychoanalytic Psychology

Paperback Website 24 June 2026

…in reality, however, scientific psychology is very unfortunate, it is the most absurd pretense, which has gained universal satisfaction by the encouragement of educated people who know only the common ground of methodology. Certainly, on the surface, the mentioned psychologists have helped psychology by fighting the worn-out ideas of “experimental psychology”, but in fact, they have built a shelter for experimental psychology where it can survive without any criticism.
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Rethinking Cultural-Historical Theory: A Dialectical Perspective to Vygotsky

Critical Psy 24 June 2026

A dialectical way of thinking has been marginalized in the western academy. Western scholars and philosophers tend to examine dialectical thinking as irrelevant, vague, and problematic. The roots of the negative stance to dialectic can be found in the “cult of empiricism” (Toulmin and Leary 1985) and the “enduring dominance of positivism” (Breen and Darlaston-Jones 2008) in psychology as well as in other disciplines. Additionally, it should be mentioned that schematic and formalist interpretations of dialectics doubtless contribute to the reproduction of its negative reception in western Academia.