Psykologien og verdenskortet

Abstract

Based on a dialectic materialistic epistemology the article presents an ontology with 3 successively formed fields of objects - the cosmological, the biological and the antropological field. The latter having 2 domains, the psychological and the sociological domain. Corresponding to these 4 domains are outmarked 4 fundamental scientific domains, that is cosmology, biology, psychology and sociology. From this external carteography the internal geography of psychology is analysed, the central area in the science of psychology being stated as the psychology of personality, and the institutional placement of this sub-discipline is then investigated in the history of psychology through 60 volumes of psychological abstract. Finally the relation between the empirical and the theoretical side of the psychological science, and the dialectics between theory and practice in psychology is discussed.