Categorial Analysis as an Elemental Constituent

ABSTRACT. This article outlines the essential characteristics of a psychology from the subject standpoint that starts from the principal unity of self-determination and determining the relations that determine one’s own actions. The main research object in subject science understood in this way is the many forms of hindrances and obstacles, both in theory and in prac-tice, that prevent us from realizing this unity. In contrast to standard research, where one attempts to grasp the dependency of the individual agency of others on societal structures and their cultural meanings, psychology from a subject standpoint is about relating to the societability of one’s own actions, that is, analysing them to grasp their own real preconditions and implications. Consequently, in such a subject science perspective, the aim is less to gain or disseminate knowledge and more to analyse the many ways in which “criti-cal ” knowledge urging change is ignored or modified to make it compatible with one’s own actual possibilities to act. As the paper details, such subject science research is not possible from an external standpoint but entails subjecting one’s own assumptions and methods to a critical analysis