wilhelm maximilian wundt was the founding father of modern psychology.
wilhelm maximilian wundt was the founding father of modern psychology.
who is the founding father of modern psychology?
wilhelm maximilian wundt
wilhelm maximilian wundt (; ; 16 august 1832 – 31 august 1920) was a german physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founders of modern psychology. wundt, who distinguished psychology as a science from philosophy and biology, was the first person ever to call himself a psychologist. he is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology". in 1879, at university of leipzig, wundt founded the first formal laboratory for psychological research. this marked psychology as an independent field of study. by creating this laboratory he was able to establish psychology as a separate science from other disciplines. he also formed the first academic journal for psychological research, "philosophische studien" (from 1881 to 1902), set up to publish the institute's research.
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the first act of the play is just of the founding father and his customers reenacting the assassination, but the second act of the play focuses on his wife and son. the wife, lucy, and son, brazil, are totally separated from the founding father; they do not see his performance but only hear it off stage. the wife and son are gravediggers as well, they took up the trade after the impersonator left and became the founding father. brazil makes a comment referring to his father’s career path, saying: "diggin was his livelihood but fakin was his callin" (179). lucy, is constantly telling brazil of the man his father was and what his favorite things were before he became the founding father. but brazil always responds with, "i was only 5." lucy is not necessarily quizzing brazil, but wants to reiterate that what his father did for work before as a gravedigger was nothing to be ashamed of, contrary to how his father feels about grave digging, and this impersonating work was not the best decision. the founding father was good at digging graves, he dug them fast and well, calling him a "natural" at it. the founding father is dead to them, because he left them to pursue this reenactment career and has not seen his family in thirty years. towards the end of the play, lucy and brazil go to see the founding father after he performs one last reenactment, he is preparing to go to the "great beyond". he is not physically going to the afterlife, but the "great beyond" is more a metaphor; because the founding father gets up and walks into a coffin where his son then parades his dead body around. the impersonations end with the founding father, brazil does not pick up where his father left off because his mother was constantly telling him that there was nothing wrong with being a gravedigger.
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