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III. I. c. (3) (c) 2.) L E C T U R E T W OPhysiology: the life of a particular organ, considered separately, though it does not exist separately.Psychology: the life of the organism as a whole. 3.) If this answer is given, that man does not differ radically or essentially in kind, thena. ) Psychology is only a particular nat­ural science, and not a branch of phi­losophy (and it is hard to account for what appears to be a body of philosophical and non-investigative knowledge about man’s nature); and furthermoreb. ) Psychoanalysis is queer. There is noanimal psychoanalysis, so far as the method of psychoanalysis is con­cerned. Man is at least capable of being distinguished from all other animals as able to be psychoanalyzed.c. ) Finally, though psychoanalysis maybe, as speculative, only a study of human behavior, it is as practical and therapeutic more than that, and that more is intelligible only in terms of the difference between man and other animals.2. Summary: The position of psychology seems to be peculiar among the investigative sciences. As animal psychology, it is properly located in the biological domain. But human psy­chology raises some difficulties.10a. On the one hand, it is like animal psychology, and in so jar is properly located in the biological domain [24].b. But, on the other hand, it seems to be something else, such as psychoanalysis or philosophical psychology or introspective psychology, etc.c. This something else, which human psychology seems to be, can be properly understood only if man is under­stood as essentially and radically different from other animals, and if, to this extent, human psychology ex-

III. 2. C. L E C T U R E T W Oceeds animal psychology and cannot be properly located in the biological domain.(1) Furthermore, we have the problem whether what is peculiarly human psychology is entirely phil­osophical in method or whether as a body of knowledge it can be both philosophical and scien­tific, that is, investigative in method. (This prob­lem does not occur with respect to animal psychol­ogy. It properly includes investigative knowledge.)(2) W e can now construct another possible picture of the allocation of psychology. Animal psychology:a particular natural science concerned with the behavior of animal organisms as wholes; a science in the biological domain.Human psychology:(a) As if it were the same as animal psychology, by ignoring what is characteristically and differently human.11(b) Of man as such: but investigative in method, such as psychoanalysis, and not in the bio­logical domain.(c) Of man as such: but philosophical in method.