„gleichsam wie in einem durchsichtigen und nicht materiellen Körper“ : Naturwissenschaftliche Ausdrücke und Bilder im psychologischen Diskurs um 1800

Lindner, Henriett Marian (2024) „gleichsam wie in einem durchsichtigen und nicht materiellen Körper“ : Naturwissenschaftliche Ausdrücke und Bilder im psychologischen Diskurs um 1800. JAHRBUCH DER UNGARISCHEN GERMANISTIK, 2023. pp. 32-45. ISSN 1217-0216

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Abstract

Psychology, in its initial phase about 1800, borrowed not only its methodology but also its vocabulary from natural science, primarily from physics. Well-known scientific phenomena of the time – magnetism, electricity, optics and acoustics – found their way into natural philosophical, medical or literary texts as metaphors for mental processes. The trans-disciplinary character of such borrowings, a part of which had a redefined meaning, led to fundamental definitions of the new discipline. This enabled the founders of psychology to set themselves apart from the primacy of empiricism and quantifiability in accordance with a Romantic holistic view of the world on the one hand, and to assert psychological knowledge itself in the landscape of science on the other.

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