Imagination in Psychology: Some Steps of Execution, by Gordon W. Allport

• Autor(a) principal: Carletti, Renan Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Ferreira, Júlia Santa Clara de Azevedo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicopatologia Fenomenológica Contemporânea
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistapfc.com.br/rpfc/article/view/1112
• topic: Gordon Allport; psicologia; pluralismo teórico; epistemologia; Gordon Allport; psychology; theoretical pluralism; epistemology

The present article is a translation of the text by Gordon Allport “Imagination in Psychology: Some Steps of Execution”, published in 1964 in the book “Imagination and the University”. Set in a time of a clash between psychoanalysis and behavioral psychology, Allport perceives in phenomenology a force that can enable new looks at the epistemological issues faced in Psychology. For him, there is a group called reductionists, who defend a single theoretical perspective to approach psychological issues. Allport proposes a perspective that is similar to a systematic pluralism, that is, it is possible to use different theories to analyze the sameproblem. The sieve to select which concepts should be used in a theory is the professional himself along with his imaginative capacity. Allport ends the text in a hopeful way, conditioning the contributions that Psychology can make to society, to the maturation of its reflections and internal debates.