This book introduces the groundbreaking work of the German critical psychologist Klaus Holzkamp. In contrast to contemporary psychology's worldlessness, the writings present a concept of psychology based on the individual's relations to the world and open up new perspectives on human subjectivity, agency and the conduct of everyday life.

KLAUS HOLZKAMP was a german psychologist and is considered the founder of critical psychology.
ERNST SCHRAUBE is Associate Professor of Psychology at Roskilde University, Denmark.
UTE OSTERKAMP is Senior Scientist of Psychology at the Free University Berlin, Germany.
ANDREW BOREHAM, Translator, is a lecturer at the Berlin School of Economics, Germany.

Acknowledgements Klaus Holzkamp and the Development of Psychology from the Standpoint of the Subject; U.Osterkamp& E.Schraube PART I: BASIC CONCERNS AND CONCEPTS OF SUBJECT SCIENCE PSYCHOLOGY Basis Concepts of Critical Psychology The Development of Critical Psychology as a Subject Science What Could a Psychology from the Standpoint of the Subject Be? Missing the Point: Variable Psychology's Blindness to the Problem's Inherent Coherence PART II: FUNCTIONAL ANALYSES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONCEPTS Personality: A Functional Analysis of the Concept Practice: A Functional Analysis of the Concept PART III: DE-SUBJECTIFICATION OF LEARNING IN PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY AND SCHOOL The Fiction of Learning as Administratively Plannable Musical Life Practice and Music Learning at School PART IV: CONSTRUCTING OTHERNESS The Concept of Antiracist Education: A Subject Science Analysis of its Function Racism and the Unconscious as Understood by Psychoanalysis and Critical Psychology The Colonization of Childhood: Psychological and Psychoanalytical Explanations of Human Development PART V: CONDUCT OF LIFE Psychology: Social Self-Understanding on the Reasons for Action in the Conduct of Everyday Life References Index