Explorations in the Disconfirmation of Psychodynamic Assertions on the World Scene

Abstract

In this chapter we will consider a number of salient methodological issues, including Popperian disconfirmation of risky predictions; the creation of meaning through symbolic interactionism; the inherent difficulties in psychodynamic inference; similarity to the inferential procedures of projective testing; psychodynamic processes as intervening variables; multiple operationism, and replication. These are all involved in the effort to disconfirm assertions about unconscious processes on the political-social scene.