Closely related to this issue is the philosophical 'school' and theme of psychovitalism--not to be confused with the epistemological doctrine of psychologism (Wundt, Lipps, Ziehen: see Appendix)--as a special 'branch' of
Neovitalism in which philosophical notions like life-force and soul-force are systematically integrated.
The study introduces heterodox literary cosmologies into a posthumanist eecology of practicesE that includes ecocriticism, science studies,
neovitalism, religious studies, queer theory, and critical race theory.
Currently, the field is revising its commitments, likely due to the challenges posed by past and emergent interlocutors working in such diverse fields as biopolitics, animal studies, object-oriented ontology, actor-network theory, assemblage theory, systems theory, affect theory, cognitive science, feminist new materialism,
neovitalism, and ecocriticism.
But his
neovitalism based on those experiments soon disappeared.