Autogenesis (psychology)
Autogenesis as a term in psychology is a neologism of individual authors that arose in the context of psychological biography research and the establishment of a genetic personality psychology and is used by them as a term for independent life and self-organization.
The term autogenesis is also used scientifically for ontogenesis in a different context . The biologist Ernst Haeckel (1866) has in view of the evolution and the genomes of all kinds, the individual development of an organism as a shortened repetition of the phylogeny shown and this recap called ontogeny. To the extent to which man acquired the ability to build an artificial environment within the framework of his cultural and historical development, the purely instinctive control of his behavior and thus his ontogeny lost more and more importance. At the same time, the process of socialization emerged in the sense of social determinacy . It was only when it was relativized that a greater degree of self-determination was made possible, which appears in the individual as individual autogenesis and in relation to the whole of humanity as collective autogenesis.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jüttemann, Gerd (1998): Genetic Personality Psychology and Comparative Case Studies. In: G. Jüttemann & H. Thomae: Biographical methods in the human sciences. Weinheim: Beltz; reprinted in: Jüttemann, Gerd (2007): Personality and Self-Design. Man in autogenesis. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
- ↑ cf. S. 18ff in: Jüttemann, Gerd (2007): Personality and self-creation. Man in autogenesis. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.