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The spell over psychology

The spell that was thrown into the people's minds sounds like that: "To realize what atom is is the dhildren's game in comparison with what children's game is" - Albert Einstein.

The magic of many years standing effect of such rush agnostic evaluation is that nobody dears to consider the central problems in psychology. Therefor we have got great amount of THEORIES with the absence of theoretical psychology as such. The opinion made by this genious physicist had fallen on the rich oil, which was fertilized wjth the traditionally pre-scientifical methods of the psychology object description in the conditions when psychology itself as a branch of the human cognition was young. It had become a spell for several generations of psychologists. Under the influence of this by-the-way utterance and facing with a really complicated scientifical object, psychologists began pinching from the science object and penetrating into investigations. It has become a tradition. It is however a pathologo- anatomic method.

Where is this spell situated and how does it display as a phenomenon? It is in the minds of psychologists, in their world descriptions, in their consciousness, in their sence structures, in their impotential attitude towards the research subject, in the lack of truth in the possibility of all psychical phenomena description and penetration in the essence of the phenomena.

There is nearly no truth in the existance of the psychological laws as such, in the possibility of the scientific ( as this notion is understood in the natural sciences) realizing. There is a lack of courage to introduct new notions, new notional and categotical apparatus criticus for the psychology ubject description. These are word explanation schemes that dominate, or subjectless mathematics. The episodes are explained, but there is no seeking for the laws, there are no attemts of describing elementary (and therefor general) movements in the psychics in the form of simple mathematical ratios. There is no orientation on the seeking for the simple and clear laws, which are true always and for every psychical phenomenon. That is in turn one of the results of the Albert Einstein's spell about the complexity of the psychics as a scientific object that has stuck in the psychologists' mind.

Realizing of all said above is the first step to the spell breaking.

© Alexei Pestov, November 1999