Critique to positivist postulate of the Psychology: from Heidegger to Foucault

Authors

  • Rômulo Marques dos Santos Ballestê Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Ricardo de Barros Cabral Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Keywords:

Psychology, positivist postulate, Heidegger, Foucault

Abstract

The objectification of the human being in its psychological feature according to the ideals of accuracy of the physical-mathematical science, as well as its identification with the biological fact, guides the project of  psychological science like a positive discipline since the nineteeth century. Michel Foucault pointed this question that a paradox. The reduction of the human being into an object of reveals itself to be contrary to the considerations of Martin Heidegger over the issue of the Being. Thus, starting by these authors observations, it will be made a critics to the positivist model of scientificity used in the development of the modern psychological science and lastly to bring to this debate the ethics which is believed to be necessary.

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Author Biographies

Rômulo Marques dos Santos Ballestê, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Psicólogo, Mestrado em Psicologia pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Doutorando em Psicologia pelo PPGP da UFRJ. Prof de Psicologia no Instituto Brasileiro de Medicina e Reabilitacao.

Ricardo de Barros Cabral, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Prof. Dr. do departamento de Psicologia Geral Experimental - PGE do Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

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2012-12-31

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BALLESTÊ, R. M. DOS S.; CABRAL, R. DE B. Critique to positivist postulate of the Psychology: from Heidegger to Foucault. Fractal: Journal of Psychology, v. 24, n. 3, p. 639-654, 31 Dec. 2012.

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