At any time the inner world of a person interested researchers.Therefore, the appearance of psychology was a natural phenomenon.What is the subject of psychology?What is studying the discipline, which translates to "knowledge of the soul"?
Many hundreds of years ago, people came to the conclusion that the person has something special, intangible and elusive, which makes the existence of a sublime and joyful, or precipitates and leads to death.Call it soul something, but no single definition for it and did not find, however, it is unlikely to exist.
remain unanswered and other issues are no less important and exciting.For example, where a man appeared, which originate its roots?What happens to a person after death?Where is human development, to which it will lead?In addition to these common issues, and other people of concern relating to each, his features, abilities, destiny.In society, there are answers.It keeps the knowledge and converts them, turning into a general and complete picture of the world.This picture is called a worldview, it contains information about the world, about the place of man in it, and on the principles of interaction between these two variables.
humanity exists for very long.During this time the ideological pattern followed one another, but each one is a place for the "soul", although in different cultures subject of psychology perceived in different ways.
Mythology
This is the first representation of the people, in which they and the world is a certain whole.The man did not separate themselves from nature, and even more did not enter into confrontation with it.Every thing had its anime - spirit.It is understood as an entity independent of the body, but to manage it.There were no boundaries between the animate and the inanimate.
Religion
subject of psychology in religious pictures of the world - is the soul as the breath of God, the particles that animates the body.Not every person has a soul, but only the elect, and it contrasted with the body that brings discord in human consciousness.
natural philosophy picture
It was built on the ideals of peace and contemplation.As part of the philosophy of nature begin to form the beginnings of synthesis and analysis.This approach involves contemplation and subsequent reflection on what he saw.This world is recovering from the mythology of the possibility of a harmonious life in harmony with nature.The ideals of the many thousands of years of natural philosophy confess civilizations of the East.In India, Persia, China, the subject of psychology - it is the individual self, control of intellectual, sensory and volitional processes.
scientific view
This picture of the world originated in Europe of the 16th century and was riddled with desire to subjugate human nature.In the 18th century introduced the concept of "psychology" and the soul, although present in this world view, no longer be called the soul.Now it is called the psyche.
answer the question of what is the object and subject of psychology, in several ways.
1 way - "look and see".Usually people use in everyday life and everyday support of the show.In the everyday meaning of the word "soul" is synonymous with "experience", "inner world", "consciousness".However, the scientific community is the definition of primitive.
Method 2 - "list, which examines where applicable."Giving an idea of any science, resorted to information about what the scientists involved and indicate the areas in which we use the results of their work.This body of knowledge is enough for a person to form an idea about a particular scientific field.But not all so simple when we have in mind a subject and object of psychology.This is due to the fact that from an object such as a soul too difficult to isolate the subject.
3 way - to "determine the rules".In science, the psyche is characterized by a certain activity - process activities, properties and functions.Understanding it as things not seen.This is a fundamental part, because the word "soul," as well as "will", "thinking", and others. Are nouns that makes a person unconsciously think of a thing.Galperin suggested to interpret the subject of psychology - mind - as the special property of highly organized matter.This definition is most often used by modern psychologists.
