The Wandering Soul in Relation to Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2389799 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rainer Diriwächter (California Lutheran University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-167 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture & Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-067X • E-ISSN: 1461-7056 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1354067x06064576 |
| OpenAlex | W2066100045 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
The unidirectional, linear-progressive view of time for psychology may need an overhaul. In this article, I comment upon Yamada and Kato's (2006) findings and further discuss the underlying axiom that gives time its structure: We stand in relation to things. This relationship is key to understanding the world in which we are embedded. The trajectories of time reveal the course of a particular development, be it the psyche in the historical-cultural temporal context as illustrated through Wilhelm Wundt's Elemente der Völkerpsychologie (1912), or how certain people conceive of their soul's voyage through life and death cycles. However, the supposedly 'observed' developmental trajectories-of whatever nature they may be-emerge due to our situatedness towards a particular event. In the end, we must remember that time is nothing but an 'infused' component of the complex qualities of phenomena, whose Gestalt reveals itself once the researcher's finite perspective has cut somewhere into the spatio-temporal totality of the objective world
Cognitive science · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Gestalt psychology · Nothing · Perspective (graphical · Psyche · Relation (database · Sociology · Soul · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis and Social Critique · Psychology · Social Representations and Identity · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2006 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |