What can R.G. Collingwood do for psychology today?

Ethnographic Studies, No 11, Autumn 2009
assumptions that are in some ways very
similar. So how does he know that what he
assumes to remain the same was not
actually different.
Dodds was very interested in
contemporary psychology and he also
made psychoanalytic assumptions and
assumptions from the dissociation
paradigm to understand some of the rituals
in the Athenian tragedy. When you do not
have enough evidence you put things
together by bringing in assumptions about
human nature and contemporary theories –
as Wundt did.
Mathieu Marion:
I wanted to say something related to what
Wes was saying. I think the distinction
between inside and outside is a really bad
way for him to put across what he has to
say, it makes it look as if there is
something involved when as a matter of
fact he is arguing against it.
Ivan Leudar
I was being charitable, as I said for myself,
I have absolutely no problem reading
inner/outer as descriptions with more or
less situational particulars.
Ivan Leudar
Collingwood’s ideas about language you
describe are certainly very Wundtian - it
would be interesting to see whether
Collingwood does not attribute it or
whether the idea was quite common at the
time.