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Postmodern challenges to the conservative anchoring of critical psychology
Postmoderne Herausforderungen für die konservative Verankerung der kritischen Psychologie
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Mattes, Peter
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| Abstract | As an outcome of the West German students movement critical psychologies in German-speaking countries have developped as marxist critiques of society and science. Above all, Holzkamp used Marx' and Engels' doctrines of natural and societal progression as foundations of a unifying categorical and closed epistemological system. Part of a political movement, psychologists were forced to link with discourses originating in the late twenties and early thirties, then cut off by National Socialism and postwar ideologies in Germany and Austria. They were forced to make up for a lag. They were to reify Marx' ghosts . For a long time they ignored the experiences of left critics in other western cultures, especially France, where critiques had been differentiated in a post-marxist manner. Up to the late eighties, this critical-psychological ignorance happened even to feminism, poststructuralism and constructivism. With the breakdown of so-called 'real socialism' Critical psychology after all had lost the last social and communitarian foundations as a reference. It had left trends of historic progression and had become conservative in a paradox way. Finally, the defeat has opened actual chances of critique, potentially in fragmented postmodern discourses. |
| Keywords | critical psychology; discourse; science; postmodernism; development; Marxism; social criticism; critical theory; historical development |
| Classification | Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Psychology |
| Method | basic research; theory formation; historical |
| Free Keywords | Psychologiekritik; critical psychology; critics of psychology |
| Collection Title | Challenges to theoretical psychology : selected/ edited proceedings of the seventh biennial conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, Berlin, 27 April - 2 May 1997 |
| Editor | Maiers, Wolfgang; Bayer, B.; Esgalhado, B.D.; Jorna, R.; Schraube, E. |
| Document language | English |
| Publication Year | 1999 |
| Publisher | Captus Univ. Publ. |
| City | North York |
| Page/Pages | p. 434-440 |
| ISBN | 1-89669-175-7 |
| Status | Postprint; reviewed |
| Licence | Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works |
