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Korean Journal of Psychology: General

  • KOREAN
  • P-ISSN1229-067X
  • E-ISSN2734-1127
  • KCI

The Study of Mind and Psychology: A Model of Two Mental Chambers for Understanding of Mind

Korean Journal of Psychology: General / Korean Journal of Psychology: General, (P)1229-067X; (E)2734-1127
2008, v.27 no.2, pp.281-307


Abstract

Analysis of cultural psychology of mind reveals significant cultural differences in the folk meaning of mind. In English, mind is viewed as various mental faculties enabling thinking and perception. This view justifies the development of modern psychology which investigates those faculties as such. In Korean, mind (maum) is viewed as the master of all the mental faculties. This latter view justifies the development of Shimhag which emphasizes the control of mind. Based on the cultural psychology of mind, we propose a model of two mental chambers which operate in every individual across cultures. In the chamber of thing, people approach the experience as if they are handling things. They view things and events as logical, objective, analytical, mechanistic and deterministic; they act like an impartial observer, On the other hand, in the chamber of maum, people become the first person experiencer; they take holistic, subjective, generative, relational, phenomenological perspective. Modern psychology takes mental phenomena largely from the thing perspective and set aside the maum perspective as unscientific. We present why the understanding of maum chamber is necessary for modern psychology and how it can be approached in psychology. This view presents a whole new area of research in the narrow field of cultural emotion and in the broader area of psychology. The study of maum chamber indicates how the local mind is inextricably linked to the global mind.

keywords
mind, maum, cultural psychology, modern psychology, Shimhag, 마음, 문화심리학, 마음의 방, 사물의 방, 심학

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