Dynamic theories of personality generally posit the reality of the unconscious, and are considered dynamic because they involve some explanation of how psychic energy is transformed as it passes back and forth between the waking rational everyday state of consciousness and the unconscious within the interior life of the individual (Taylor 2009). Laboratory experimentalists acknowledge only the reality of the rational waking state. This is the point where a person’s inward reality interfaces with external material reality through pleasurable and painful attachment of the senses to objects or other people in the outer world. Historically, for the reductionists into operational definitions and measurement, science is based on the rational ordering of sense data alone, excluding emotion and intuition in their methods, the product of which is then overgeneralized to all of reality. Consequently, scientific psychology has always been in crisis about phenomena that cannot be directly...
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