ABSTRACT
If our critiques at the levels of philosophy and theory of society are on the right track, the critique of specific psychological theories should prove to be a straightforward matter. The inadequacies at these two fundamental levels have consequences for the social sciences: (1) for lack of an adequate understanding of society and history, they blindly but necessarily reproduce in some theoretical form or another the actually isolated individual in bourgeois society as an abstractisolated individual; and (2) they utterly fail to grasp subjectivity as a manifestation of the concrete relationship between the individual and society. This being the case, we can hardly expect to find these faults remedied (miraculously, as it were) at the level of special theories. On the contrary. Having now been alerted to the theoretical problem and its nature, we should only expect to see their faults more clearly.
