Imagination in Psychology: Some Steps of Execution, by Gordon W. Allport
The present article is a translation of the text by Gordon Allport “Imagination in Psychology: Some Steps of Execution”, published in 1964 in the book “Imagination and the University”. Set in a time of a clash between psychoanalysis and behavioral psychology, Allport perceives in phenomenology a for...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Sociedade Brasileira de Psicopatologia Fenômeno-Estrutural (SBPFE) |
| Repositorio: | Psicopatologia Fenomenológica Contemporânea |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.rpfc.emnuvens.com.br:article/1112 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistapfc.com.br/rpfc/article/view/1112 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Gordon Allport psicologia pluralismo teórico epistemologia psychology theoretical pluralism epistemology |
| Sumario: | The present article is a translation of the text by Gordon Allport “Imagination in Psychology: Some Steps of Execution”, published in 1964 in the book “Imagination and the University”. Set in a time of a clash between psychoanalysis and behavioral psychology, Allport perceives in phenomenology a force that can enable new looks at the epistemological issues faced in Psychology. For him, there is a group called reductionists, who defend a single theoretical perspective to approach psychological issues. Allport proposes a perspective that is similar to a systematic pluralism, that is, it is possible to use different theories to analyze the sameproblem. The sieve to select which concepts should be used in a theory is the professional himself along with his imaginative capacity. Allport ends the text in a hopeful way, conditioning the contributions that Psychology can make to society, to the maturation of its reflections and internal debates. |
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