A Talk on the Question of Dialectical Materialism in Psychology: A Discussion with Comrade pan Shu

Psychology studies the human psyche and consciousness. Traditional psychology was subdivided into three parts, known as cognition, emotion, and will. Comrade Pan Shu has proposed a two-way subdivision, into cognition and purpose. He regards the two-way division as being in accord with dialectical materialism and the three-way division as being contrary to dialectical materialism. In his essay "Chats on Psychology," he offers the following schematic explanation.