Anthropology and psychology WF-ZPS-N-AP
1. Anthropology: etymology, history, forefathers, important dates, fundamental terms and ideas, definitions, subdisciplines, associated sciences, features and assumptions of science.
2. Styles and methods of practicing anthropology.
3. Human being: in nature, in mind and subject, in interaction, in culture, in Absolut.
4. Philosophical anthropology: historical and contemporary conceptions of human philosophy.
5. Physical anthropology: the specificity of human being, anthropogenesis (homo sapiens).
6. Cultural anthropology: classical and modern conceptions, anthropology of religion, psychoculturalism, cognitive anthropology, reflexive anthropology of C. Geertz (homo culturalis).
7. Theological/religious anthropology: Christian anthropology, personalism (homo religiosus).
8. Anthropology of knowledge: non-classical history and theory of scientific knowledge (L. Fleck).
9. Fundamental anthropological challenges for psychology: soma and psyche, free will, consciousness-unconsciousness, behavior or experience, nature or culture, commonality or exception, intellect or feelings, truth-goodness-beauty, memory and identity (I mean who?), I-Thou and I-It concepts, faith, hope, and love.
10. Psychological anthropologies and psychological paradigms: pictures and metaphors of a man present in psychology, psychological conceptions of a man - classical and alternate, including Polish conceptions, and historical-cultural context.
11. Psychological anthropology of E. Boesch and other contemporary psychologies of a man.
12. Relations between anthropology and psychology: experience, soul, human being, myth/culture/religion.
13. Philosophy, biology, cultural studies, theology and psychology of a man.
14. Real psychology (psychosophy): the soul perspective (J. Hillman).
15. Anthropological psychology: origin, presuppositions, methods, thought the style of anthropological psychology.
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The course “Anthropology and Psychology” is devoted to an interdisciplinary reflection on the human being, examined from the perspective of anthropology and its multifaceted connections with psychology. The classes introduce the foundations of anthropology, including its origins, historical development, key precursors, essential concepts, ideas, and definitions, as well as its subdisciplines, fields, research methods, and theoretical assumptions. Particular attention is given to the diverse styles of anthropological inquiry and to the relationships between anthropology and other areas of knowledge. An important part of the course focuses on the analysis of various conceptions of the human being: as a biological organism, a psychological subject, an agent, a social being, a cultural being, and a religious being. The course discusses classical and contemporary approaches within philosophical anthropology, physical anthropology (including the problem of anthropogenesis), and cultural anthropology, with special emphasis on such perspectives as the anthropology of religion, psychoculturalism, cognitive anthropology, and Clifford Geertz’s reflexive anthropology of culture. The syllabus also addresses issues in theological anthropology and personalism, as well as the anthropology of knowledge, inspired, among others, by the work of Ludwik Fleck. Within the course, key anthropological challenges faced by psychology are examined, including the relationship between body and psyche, the problem of free will, consciousness and the unconscious, the tension between nature and culture, cognition and emotion, universality and uniqueness of human experience, as well as questions of identity, memory, relations with the human and non-human Other, and the axiological and religious dimensions of human life. The course presents various psychological anthropologies and their links to psychological paradigms, analysing images and metaphors of the human being present in classical, alternative, and Polish psychological theories within their historical and cultural contexts. The course also includes a discussion of Ernst Boesch’s psychological anthropology and other contemporary approaches to the psychology of the human being, the relationships between anthropology and psychology in areas such as experience, soul, personhood, myth, culture, and religion, as well as the connections between psychology and philosophy, biology, cultural studies, and theology. An important component of the course is the presentation of the perspective of “real psychology” (psychozophy) developed by James Hillman, along with the origins, assumptions, methods, and style of thinking characteristic of anthropological psychology (psychologia anthropologica). |
(in Polish) E-Learning
Term 2023/24: (in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs) | Term 2021/22: (in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs) | Term 2024/25: (in Polish) E-Learning | Term 2025/26: (in Polish) E-Learning | Term 2019/20: (in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs) | Term 2020/21: (in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs) | Term 2022/23: (in Polish) E-Learning (pełny kurs) |
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Learning outcomes
Upon the course completion a student:
1. Defines and distinguishes the fundamental subdisciplines of anthropology.
2. Identifies and understands the concept of human beings on the biological, psychological, cultural, social and spiritual dimensions.
3. Notices and understands relations between anthropology and psychology.
4. Analyses fundamental anthropological challenges of psychology.
5. Presents and critically discusses classical and contemporary psychological conceptions of a man in the historical-cultural context.
Assessment criteria
5 - excellent knowledge, skills, and personal and social competences
4.5 - very good knowledge, skills, and personal and social competences
4.0 - good knowledge, skills, and personal and social competences
3.5 - satisfactory knowledge, skills, and personal and social competences, however with significant mistakes
3.0 - satisfactory knowledge, skill, and personal and social competences, however with many mistakes
2.0 - unsatisfactory knowledge, skills, and personal and social competences
Written exam - made of two parts: multiple answers test and open-ended questions.
Practical placement
Not applicable.
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Baumaister, R.F. (2011). Zwierzę kulturowe. Warszawa: PWN. |
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