ABSTRACT
During the 20th century, which in some way was the century of psychology, it was still easy to place great utopian hopes on psychology, such as the epistemological hope that psychology could be a super-science, a science of all the sciences, and the therapeutic hope that it could be the rescue of the world or at least bring about the healing of the modern predicament. All that psychology can do and is supposed to do is to accompany in feeling and thought the actual movement of “the soul” or the mercurial spirit in the course of events and to try to make sense of it, thereby freeing the soul or spirit from its imprisonment in the opaqueness or occludedness of the factual. Psychology is the discipline of interiority. It cannot afford the luxury of thinking about its subject-matters in terms of external objects.
