Edwarda Abramowskiego system psychologiczny i teoria przeżycia religijnego

Abstract

The author attempts to reconstruct and to give a critical evaluation of the psychological system formed by E. Abramowski, paying special attention to its characteristic component, i.e. the psychology of religious states. The philosophical as well as the general methodological assumptions of the system under consideration, its basic cathegories, its subject, the investigation methods and the main theoretical concepts, in particular the theory of cryptomnesia (subconsiousness) have been discussed accordingly. Within the context of the psychological system and in direct connection with the theory of cryptomnesia some selected aspects of the psychology of religious states, i.e. the psychological approach to the origin and the structure of those states have been discussed in greater detail. The analysis of the discussed system and its component pertaining to the matters of religion forms a basis for the assumption - which is the main thesis of the paper - that the psychological theory of religious states formed by Abramowski on the basis of his psychological system and a specific (gnosiological) variant of the concept of subconsciousness - in spite of numerous evident imperfections and wrong conclusions - is an inventive theory, likely to prove useful in further research, which, however, should be verified by modern psychological methods.