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Can a psychological theory be free of the theorist’s self? Or is it possible to demarcate the boundary between the psychological theory and the theorist’s self? This is the central question that has motivated this chapter. Although not with a specific focus on the self of the theorist, this question has been taken up in many earlier explorations. Jung (1933) himself believed that a theory reflects the personal history of its creator and stated that any psychology is a personal confession, well reflected in his widely quoted statement that ‘our way of looking at things is conditioned by what we are’ (p. 119). Maduro and Wheelwright (1977) extended this idea, maintaining that no psychology escapes the elements of its founder’s personal psychology, and thus reflects a subjective bias, even in the very questions it selects to ask and in how it sets out to answer them.
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Ahammed, S. (2011). Mapping the Dialogical Self in Jung’s Memories, Dreams and Reflections. In: Jones, R.A., Morioka, M. (eds) Jungian and Dialogical Self Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307490_5
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