ABSTRACT
Cultural psychology, from the very beginning of the history of psychology, has been repressed and marginalized by a natural science model. In order to grasp the repressed, the history of psychology should include hidden or forgotten motives that are nevertheless part of the processes of meaning-making in psychology as а science. Analysis of Wundt’s views on the distinction between psychology and natural science, on specific features of immediate subject’s experience (value assessment, purpose setting, volition), and on the foundational role of psychology for other human sciences, reveals that the dominant reception of Wundt repressed his cultural psychological stance. In its place, a natural science model, based on positivism, was falsely ascribed to Wundt and transmitted further through the history of psychology. After this original repression, a second form of repression of cultural psychology occurred within the framework of the cognitive revolution. A meaning-making subject was transformed into an information processing machine. Cultural psychology in 1990s was accompanied by the rise of evolutionary psychology and a proclamation of the end of history. In such a hostile environment, reinforced also by a global crisis, cultural psychology has to struggle to overcome the history of its repression and to rehabilitate its proper study of human experience within its historically constituted cultural forms.
