THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EGO The psychological Ego is the self-awareness. Consciousness is the faculty for which we realize things clearly. Consciousness can be immediate if we use the senses and mediate if we use the intelligence and the intuition. Our ideas, emotions, decisions and thoughts shape our psychological Ego. The psychological Ego is a subjective immediate consciousness that is refered to reality. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
MENTAL FACULTIES Higher animals have: instincts, perception, will and affection. The perception is the objective consciousness and the sensing is the information generated by the senses which is transmitted to the nerve centers. The sensing can be: visual, acoustic, olfactory, gustatory, tactile and proprioceptive. People are animals more intelligence and morality. Philosophy helps us to discover our psychological ego. Philochrony allows us to develop the spatial and temporal consciousness. What about Psychology? This discipline try to understand the others' behavior based on group's norms. Psychology adapts the group to norms and not the individual to the group.
Psychology is where you talk to somebody about your problems for years, at $20 a session. Psychologists are doing what psychics and fortune tellers used to do (and still do). The only difference is that psychologists pretend to do science.
That's right, because some psychologists do not understand Psychology and they always have the same defects.
Psychologists deal with an area of reality (natural neural output data) where the scientific method breaks down. The rules of science were designed to factor out the subjectivities of the human psyche, so what is left is considered objective, repeatable and tangible reality. For example, say we all looked at a tree and someone saw a unicorn, science will factor out the unicorn since this unproven observation is specific to one person and is not subject to investigation by the others. It is not tangible or proven. The unicorn is important to the psychologist since this is natural output data from the human psyche/brain. It may be a unique perception but it is still a brain output data. Science breaks down with this type of data, since the output is real in the sense of from the brain, but is not tangible for independent verification. If a machine was outputting an anomaly, we would have a tangible thing to touch, look at and investigate. The brain is a natural object with its own output effects, like dreams, but these outputs cannot always be fully seem from the outside, since there are no tools that can do this. Rather than admit its practical limitations, members of the science philosophy somehow feel better if it passes the limitation buck and call this type of data soft science. You need to approach this natural neural output data from a way, different from the bias of science. Often you have to take the word of the subjects, even though it cannot be independently verified. The other way is since we all have brains and all out brains can output things like dreams, which science cannot see, we may have to collect data directly from our own minds. This allows one to plot part of the structure of the psyche like the above diagram generated by Freud.
Good point wellwisher. In my opinion, I think that Psychology should never deviated from Philosophy. If such a thing had not happened there would be less crime and corruption in the world. Remember that Ethics is a philosophical discipline. Psychology like a science is a dream.
It might be hard for other to relate to what you're saying here. You might have to explain yourself a bit more. How exactly did psychology deviate from philosophy and why is the relationship between the two relevent and/or important? Why would there be less crime and corruption? What makes psychology and science like a dream? On the last point you should really explain yourself. I personally have no idea where you're coming from when you use the word 'dream'.
I'll try my best. Since its origins Psychology was a philosophical discipline until in 1879 that it attempted to turn it into science with the Wilhlem Wundt's laboratory. With this, Psychology moved away from Philosophy. They must include Morals in Psychology programs. Education based in values. Maybe this weren't necessary in all countries because there are several countries with a moral and civic high level. I said that it's a dream to create a science with Psychology. It's impossible to record images that a person forms in mind. It isn't possible that Psychology becomes a science.
