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"For Farias Brito (1862-1917) psychology is synonymous with metaphysics. He affirmed that philosophy as a whole is at once “pre-scientific” (“knowledge in fieri, knowledge in the process of elaboration”) and “superscientific” (“totalization of experience, conception of the universal whole”). According to him, science as “knowledge made, knowledge organized” is the result of philosophy. From there one can deduce that psychological questions are also ontological.
Despite a rich theoretical elaboration and local context the Brazilian intellectual production and ways of knowing are still dependent on external theories that on one hand ignore the local intellectual production and on the other hand impose an epistemic colonialism that is often hidden. Following the avant-gardist path of Farias Brito’s conceptualisation and constance of his questions throughout the main body of the work of this forerunner of phenomenology and existential philosophy, positions that are still dominant in psychology today such as, the conflictual integration/separation of subjective, experiential, socio-cultural and scientific domains, will be challenged.
This paper argues that ontological multiplicity as a critique of ontology itself is a first step towards a critique of the place of hegemonic psychology in a multipolar world. Multiplicity against positivism, against pluralism and tripartism, and against systemic approaches that replaces our symbolic sphere while desanthropologising. Today’s world of cybernetic applications, computers and intelligent machines reduces humanity to a process of calculation/commodification where the symbolic field is replaced by a cybernetic one. The argument for an experiential metaphysics (experiential psychology) which requires a level of abstraction in the service of the experience will be exposed."

The Global South Critical Psychology Conference, 26th of May 2023
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Ph.D. Renato S Guimaraes