A lélek szekuláris dekomponálása és az osztatlan lélek küzdelme a modern pszichológia születésekor

The starting point of the lecture is that from the middle of the 19th century on, modern psychology extended the secularization of humans to the domain of mental life. The program of ‚psychology without a soul’ appears in the mosaic view of mental life promoted by experimentalists, in the decomposition of personality into components, and the working of meaningless evolutionary algorithms. Cultural counterreactions appeared in several European cultural communities against this kind of decomposition. In addition to religious arguments, many philosophically minded people tried to save, even if not the unity of the ‘soul’, at least the unity of the person, from the aspirations of Bergson, Dilthey and Husserl to contemporary phenomenological psychology and personalisms. I myself argue in favor of the narratively constructed nature of personhood.

Keywords: decomposition of the soul; narrative interpretation of mind; phenomenological
mind; personality traits.