Abstract

GONZALEZ REY, Fernando. Epistemology and Ontology: a necessary debate for Psychology today. Diversitas [online]. 2009, vol.5, n.2, pp.205-224. ISSN 1794-9998.

In this paper is discussed the development of the ontological and epistemological questions related to psychoanalysis, the empirical psychology supported on behavior and the soviet psychology. These approaches implied three different ontological representations on psyche. Each of those ontological representations was involved with different epistemological and methodological consequences. A special attention is given in the discussion to soviet psychology, an approach that up to now remains little known in the western psychology. Soviet psychology, either by the historical conditions of its emergence, or by received cultural and philosophical influences, had important differences with the more known psychological approaches in that time. Started from historical cultural approach, the author introduces the topic of the subjectivity from a cultural - historical standpoint, as a new ontological proposal. It is also discussed the epistemological and methodological demands resulted from the study of the subjectivity in this theoretical approach.

Keywords : epistemology; subjectivity; ontology; theory.

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