Yaw-Sheng Lin
Department of Psychology Kaohsiung Medical University
It is a shibboleth to answer “what is human-being” from the view point of psychology. If we try to define the meaning of a person within the positivism discourse, we may miss the dynamic characteristics of human-being. Therefore, the author presented three propositions to de/re-construct the multiple meanings of human-being through the derivative of “knowledge and human interests” originated by Habermas; namely, the cross-boundaries of normality and deviance, the dialectics of self and other, and the dialogues of consciousness and unconsciousness, to highlight the new landscapes of psychological being after such epistemological turn. Finally, the author pointed out that it is an alternative route to understand the meaning of human-being from the psycho-cultural context beyond the dualism, a way approaching the subjectivity of being in the world.
Keywords: normality, deviance, self, other, consciousness, unconsciousness