Epistemological psychology
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Epistemological psychology is a multi-sided perspective in psychology
uncovering simple primary hidden inklings (images) in ideas, actions, feelings and all social interactions.
The inkling is presumed to trigger an affect which encapsulates and saturates all human experience. In everyday life, inklings induce detection either via human enactments (through habitual behavior) or through spontaneous devotion (conscious expression in the arts).
The term episteme is related to the Greek
word επιστήμη, which translates literally as standing near or by that which causes but is often simplified as knowledge
or science
. By ignoring ego interests the core impetus or the essence of a deed, real or imagined, is recovered.
, whose many books focused on poetics
and (day-) dreaming. Episteme psychology was established as a separate discipline in the late 1980s through the work of v.d. Stok v. Altenæ.
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
uncovering simple primary hidden inklings (images) in ideas, actions, feelings and all social interactions.
The inkling is presumed to trigger an affect which encapsulates and saturates all human experience. In everyday life, inklings induce detection either via human enactments (through habitual behavior) or through spontaneous devotion (conscious expression in the arts).
The term episteme is related to the Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
word επιστήμη, which translates literally as standing near or by that which causes but is often simplified as knowledge
Knowledge
Knowledge is a familiarity with someone or something unknown, which can include information, facts, descriptions, or skills acquired through experience or education. It can refer to the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject...
or science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
. By ignoring ego interests the core impetus or the essence of a deed, real or imagined, is recovered.
History
Episteme psychology began with the 1940s written works of Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break...
, whose many books focused on poetics
Poetics
Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory...
and (day-) dreaming. Episteme psychology was established as a separate discipline in the late 1980s through the work of v.d. Stok v. Altenæ.