Evolution, antropologisk psykologi og kulturpsykologi

Abstract

The human psyche consists of a connection between (1) nature, (2) the human organism and (3) culture. Nature is the first world, the human organism and the psyche is the second world, and culture is the third world. Culture is the formal aspect of the third world or the manner in which the third world appears at given time and place. The fylogenetic correspondens between the first and the second world is called biopsyche. The sociogenetic correspondens between the second and the third world is called culturepsyche. Biopsyche and culturepsyche develop as a unity dating two-four million years back. They split for perhaps
about 40.000 years ago, and since then only the culturepsyche can develop further as the variable unfolding of the biopsyche. Cultural psychology investigates how the second world is synchronously influenced by and carrier of the third world. In addition anthropological psychology investigates the diachronous alternation between the first, the second and the third world including the second world's creation ofthe third and the species specific determination of the human psyche. A short outline is rendered of the main trends in psychological anthropology.