Imagination in Psychology

Some Steps of Execution, by Gordon W. Allport

Authors

  • Renan Silva Carletti Centro Universitário de Rio Claro - Claretiano
  • Júlia Santa Clara de Azevedo Ferreira Universidade de Sao Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37067/rpfc.v11i1.1112

Keywords:

Gordon Allport, psychology, theoretical pluralism, epistemology

Abstract

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 same
problem. 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.

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Author Biographies

Renan Silva Carletti, Centro Universitário de Rio Claro - Claretiano

Doutor em Psicologia Clínica pela USP e estágio de pós-doutorado no Laboratório de Mídia, Comportamento e Política (LABO/PUC-SP). Atua como professor universitário e psicólogo clínico. Doutor em Psicologia Clínica pela USP (2021). Formação Teórica em Psicologia Fenomenológica-Hermenêutica pelo Instituto Dasein (2018). Mestre em Ciências da Religião pela PUC-SP (2015). Graduado em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal de São Paulo (2012).

Júlia Santa Clara de Azevedo Ferreira, Universidade de Sao Paulo

Mestranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da FFCLRP – USP (Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto da FFCLRP) e integrante do Laboratório de Pesquisa e Estudo em Práticas Grupais do mesmo Programa. Histórico de Formação Graduada em Psicologia pela Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (2013), pós-graduada em Psicossociologia da Juventude e Políticas Públicas pela Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo (2015).

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Published

2022-05-10

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2022)

Section

Translation

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