Author/Authors :
Arkonaç, Sibel A. Istanbul Üniversitesi - Edebiyat Fakültesi - Psikoloji Bölümü, Turkey
Title Of Article :
Collective Conscious / Collective Representation: Wundt and Durkheim
Abstract :
In this article I will try to discuss studies of Wundt and Durkheim about collective phenomenon that is constellated them in the different positions in the same project. Wundt s efforts for integration of mind-society antithesis have some discrepancies. Durkheim takes mind and society as co-complementary but different levels. He is persistent for this anti-reductionist attitude. I will focus on these two points. Wundt is anti-positivist in conceptualization of collective conscious in contrast to what he does in experimental psychology, but on the other hand since he already saves his Cartesian position in defining collective conscious in relationality with society he could not see the relationality between them because of this dualistic thinking. But Durkheim is anti-reductionist and has a positivist attitude. He sees individual, society and conscious as complementary but different levels. So he locates individual as a defined position.
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Wundt , Durkheim , Comte , positivism , consciousness , collective phenomena , collective representation
JournalTitle :
Turkish journal of sociology
