Tamashi (Soul) Kara Kokoro (Mind) He Shinri Gaku No Tanjo / Original Title: from SOUL to MIND (Kodansha Gakujutsu Bunko)

[Machine Translation] In the first half of the 19th century, it was writers, doctors, and ministers who explored the human psyche. By the end of the century, with the establishment of experimental psychology, it became the domain of psychologists and physiologists. But the path was not monolithic. In this book, the author presents a powerful new picture of the history of psychology, organizing the complex and intricate flow of the concept of the mind, which replaced the concept of the soul, and the veins of underground psychology, which aimed to naturalize the concept of the mind.

一九世紀前半、人の心理を探求したのは作家や医者や牧師たちであった。世紀末には実験心理学の成立により、それは心理学者・生理学者たちの領域となる。だがその道筋は単線的ではない。本書では、魂の概念に代わる心の概念の登場、自然化を目論むアンダーグラウンド心理学の水脈など、複雑に入り組んだ流れを整理、心理学史の新しい像を力強く描き出す。