Original scientific paper
An Overview of “The Struggle for the Value of the Ego” or an Introduction to “Pilar’s psychology”
Vlado ŠAKIĆ
; Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Republic of Croatia
Abstract
There are three general goals towards which the author directed his attention.
The first relates to the actualisation of the fact that Pilar among other
things dealt in psychological analyses. The second relates to the actualisation
of the fact that he wrote a work some qualify as one of his main writing
achievements, based on which one may, with considerable theoretical
justification from a contemporary psychological perspective, assign him the
attribute of one of the pioneers of development of psychology, especially
social psychology in Croatia. The third refers to the actualisation of the fact
of Pilar’s inclination towards the application of theoretical achievements in
practice, and that is an approach which started to develop in social sciences
not earlier than in the second half of the twentieth century. A more
precise critical evaluation of Pilar’s contributions mentioned above that can
be placed within the framework of scientific psychology is yet to come.
However, it must be stressed in the end with sufficient certainty that by
systematically suppressing Pilar’s work Croatian psychology lost an important
referential and hypothetical stronghold which could have placed it at
the time of its emergence at the European level.
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67101
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Publication date:
26.11.2006.
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