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1 - Reintroducing the Soul

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2023

Robert Kugelmann
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University of Dallas
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Despite psychology having no place for the soul, there are reasons to reconsider the soul. Soul has a place outside of psychology in many cultures. So we look at formulations of the soul from a variety of cultures. Then we turn to developmental cognitive studies of contemporary folk psychology. These studies explore intuitions in children about the existence of the soul. A final example of experiential dualism comes from studies of people dealing with severe pain and illness, who can experience that their bodies are something that they have and feel at a distance, albeit an oppressive distance. The soul addresses the “phenomenological experience” that people are not simply objects in the physical world. These studies suggest that psychology “with a soul” is the suppressed double of psychology without a soul. The former has not disappeared, it has been marginalized.

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Print publication year: 2023

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  • Reintroducing the Soul
  • Robert Kugelmann, University of Dallas
  • Book: The Soul in Soulless Psychology
  • Online publication: 10 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009301220.002
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  • Reintroducing the Soul
  • Robert Kugelmann, University of Dallas
  • Book: The Soul in Soulless Psychology
  • Online publication: 10 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009301220.002
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  • Reintroducing the Soul
  • Robert Kugelmann, University of Dallas
  • Book: The Soul in Soulless Psychology
  • Online publication: 10 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009301220.002
Available formats
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