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Four major revolutions within psychology (i.e., the behavioristic, cognitive, psychoanalytic, and humanistic) are briefly examined in an attempt to unearth their formal structures. The view put forth is that it is a transformation of the subject-object relation — an insight gleaned by an application of Ludwig Feuerbach's transformative method — which underlies major paradigmatic shifts within psychology. It is noted that psychological revolutions based upon a transformation of the subject-object relation could go on indefinitely in a vicious, circular manner. Thus, a revolution to end revolutions is called for (a dialectical revolution) in order to liberate psychologists from partialist, encapsulated, or limiting views of the subject-object relation.
Allan R. Buss (Sun,) studied this question.