The Problem of the Image of Man

Sigmund Koch has remarked that “psychology has been far more concerned with being a science than with courageous and self-determining confrontation of its historical subject matter. ¹ Koch pointed out how little scientific psychology has contributed to the humanities in the face of his conviction that “psychology . . . must be . . . that area in which the problems of the sciences, as traditionally conceived, and the humanities intersect.” He traced the difficulty to the fact that “psychology (and social science) has constructed a language that renders virtually impossible” its living up to its promise.