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psychologism
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psy·chol·o·gism  (s-kl-jzm)
n.
The explanation or interpretation of events or ideas in psychological terms.

psychologism [saɪˈkɒləˌdʒɪzəm]
n
1. (Psychology) the belief in the importance and relevance of psychology for other sciences
2. (Psychology) the belief that psychology is the basis for all other natural and social sciences
psychologistic  adj

psychologism
the theory that emphasizes psychological conceptions in other fields outside of psychology, as philosophy and history.
See also: Psychology


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VIII, "The Psychologistic Prejudices" [section] 46 (28) cf.
The poet in question is Petrarch, and the classical monolith into which he painfully collided is Ovid, whose poem of change, the Metamorphoses, is made relentlessly stable by "its visual and rhetorical clarity, its calm impersonality, its security within nature, its accommodations with suffering, its refusal of psychologistic paradox, and its capacity for repose" (131).
Down and Out in Paris and London was the opposite to the psychologistic, character-driven novels typical of the lost generation lodged in Paris--the concern with the concrete details of poverty, and the material conditions which made 'Paris' possible more or less effaces the narrator entirely.
 
 
 
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