Considerations on the constitution of psychological science and its implications for subjectivity in contemporary times

• Main Authors: Rafael Bianchi Silva, Jéssica Paula da Silva Mendes
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2017-01-01
• Series: INTERthesis
• Subjects: Psicologia Científica; Modernidade; Subjetividade Contemporânea
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/interthesis/article/view/44987

This paper aims to travel historically through the path of consolidation on the Scientific Psychology. Starting from de Cartesian system when Modern Age began, we can observe the establishment of modern regulations, which later were radicalized by the Sciences, including Psychology, by establishing a disciplinarian character in their praxis. Through this paper, the scientific objectivity for the operationalization of the scientific psychology and its ethical-political implications arediscussed, seeking to understand how Psychology designed the subjectivity looking for scientific legitimacy and the implications of this tendency in contemporary subjectivity. As a result, the contemporary times reveal a psychological science still limited to an outdated scientific project, which limits its possibilities of intervention to a materiality of practices and results, and causes the object that it investigates to become a product of this same science.