Despite the recognition of the importance of diversity and pluralism, it seems to me - in my humble view - that a General Psichology is something desirable to increase the episthemological status of Psychology as a science - a science between Biology and Sociology (that is interested both on physical phenomenon under psychical ones and on psychical functioning).
Therefore,
a General Psychology probably would be a disicipline that articulates the biological and sociological dimensions in a kind of creative sintesis. Couldn't the whole be integrated by those wholes you reffer - without any supression of all diversity and pluralism?
Finally, let me note that I am not looking for The One Science "to rule
them all and in the darkness bind them" (Tolkien's Ring). There should
still be pluralism, but a pluralism of Wholes, rather than the present
piece-meal Babel. No one science can imagine all the ways the world is with
us, but equally no science should define its object in such a way that it
cannot be pursued across all possible borders.
JAY.
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