ABSTRACT
In the period 1968-1974, the insistence on positivist science in psychology increased just as the residual influence of psychoanalysis on psychology declined. This is the context within which Changing the subject (1984) has intervened. The book seeks to interpose itself firmly within the discipline of psychology. The purpose of changing the subject of psychology works through three stages - critique, deconstruction, reconstruction - and the first begins by attacking the transcendental subject of psychology as it is reproduced by the social/individual dualism. In the area of occupational psychology dualism is represented by an object (the job) and a subject (the worker). From a basis in this critique of social/individual dualism Changing the subject feels able to move forward to a deconstruction of psychology both in terms of its epistemology and the object, Man, it presumes.
