| Abstract | The article argues that psychologists use metaphors in their attempts to make bodies of data conform to particular assumptions. The nineteenth century founders of formal psychology were Victorian gentlemen who viewed the world through a prism of European metaphors. While few would deny the advancements made by their prism, it has become abundantly clear that this focus is too exclusionary, denying as it does the experience of social class, females, race, language, religion, culture -- all the panorama of history and trans-cultural experience. This essay further argues that a dialect between Chinese and European root metaphors is a start toward a more universal psychology. |
|---|
