A study of two conflicts between psychology and Catholic thinking in the twentieth century in the United States suggests that between psychology and religion there are intrinsic contradictions. In the mid-1890s, Edward A. Pace defended the new experimental psychology against attacks by Thomas Hughes, who argued that psychology abandons the soul and encourages utilitarianism in education. In the late 1940s, Fulton J. Sheen attacked psychoanalysis for its reductionism and he asserted the superiority of the sacrament of confession. His critics, mainly Catholic psychoanalysts, claimed that Sheen misrepresented what occurred in psychiatry. Underlying both conflicts were conflicting conceptions of human subjectivity.
对20世纪美国心理学与天主教思想之间两次冲突的研究表明,心理学与宗教之间存在着内在的矛盾。在19世纪90年代中期,爱德华·a·佩斯(Edward A. Pace)为新的实验心理学辩护,反对托马斯·休斯(Thomas Hughes)的攻击,后者认为心理学抛弃了灵魂,在教育中鼓励功利主义。20世纪40年代末,富尔顿·j·辛(Fulton J. Sheen)抨击精神分析的简化论,并断言忏悔圣礼的优越性。他的批评者,主要是天主教精神分析学家,声称辛歪曲了精神病学中发生的事情。在这两种冲突的背后是关于人的主体性的相互冲突的概念。
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