Historical Relations of Psychology as an Object- science and a Subject- science: Toward Psychology as a Human- science

Textbooks and other teaching of psychology’s history oversimplify to the point of presenting it as the evolution of an exclusively object-science – despite general familiarity with integral extrascientistic practices and assumptions. Representative examples are presented, along with an overview of object-psychology’s cultural/ practical routes to dominance. The purpose of highlighting these facets of psychology’s development is to call for psychology to take explicit account of humans’ subjecthood as well as objectness, on the way rereading our history toward an integrated science.