Cultural-psychological analysis in practice of interdisciplinary studies

Abstract

The notion of cultural-psychological analysis as an instrument of interdisciplinary relation between psychology and adjacent sciences is developed. Cultural-psychological analysis is used as a special methodological “optics” that allows to study phenomena of higher ontological and gnosiological complexity. Methodological issues relationship between psychology and the humanities are discussed. It is shown that for its development psychology requires an interdisciplinary discourse. The State Academy of Arts (in Russian: GAKhN) is considered as a model of interdisciplinary communication in Russian culture at the turn of ХХ century. Interdisciplinarity as a phenomenon of culture and history of science appeared at the turn of XX century when psychology was rather a natural science than a humanitarian one. And it was an interdisciplinary relationship between psychology, philosophy, philology, ethnography, literature, etc. that led psychology to a methodological breakthrough.