UNITY IN PSYCHOLOGY? A COMPARISON OF THE UNCONSCIOUS CONCEPT TO SOME OF THE MAIN CURRENT STRAINS OF PSYCHOLOGY

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.5583282307088

• Palavras-chave: Unconscious, psychology, currents of psychology.

• Keywords: Unconscious, psychology, currents of psychology.

• Abstract:

  This article aims to compare the concept of the unconscious to some of the main authors of modern psychology. The chosen authors were: Freud, representing Psychoanalysis, Jung, representing Analytical Psychology, Viktor Frankl, representing Logotherapy and Skinner, representing Radical Behaviorism. For this, the method used was qualitative content analysis in relation to the description of the concept of the unconscious that these authors make throughout their works. The contents of the books of the aforementioned authors were used. The conclusion of this work reveals that the term unconscious is not univocal for psychology, since each author has a different conception of what is unconscious, and particularly Skinner, denies that there is even the notion of mind or psyche, and consequently, of the unconscious. as conceived by other authors. It also points to the different objects of study of each theoretical line.