title: [Balzac and the limits of psychology].
abstract: In contradiction to the general meaning that Balzac belongs to one of the first representative authors, who described their figures according to the assumptions of motivational psychology--including psychoanalytic, i. e. subconscious motivation--the Ref. gives proof, that Balzac has overcome these limited premises of actual psychology. Balzac saw human existence under the aspects of passions, the pathetic, the tragic, the apriori of psychology in general, which is the possible itself, the dependence further of any individual identity on situative variabilitis--all aspects transcend motivational psychology and show its limits. Balzac should be considered as a predecessor of an anthropological-existencialistic psychology, his biography can not be understood by the application of psychoanalytic "Klischees", it is rooted in the contradictions of human nature, that are antilogical in them selfes.
mesh_terms: D005197:Famous Persons; D005602:France; D005863:Gestalt Theory; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D011582:Psychological Theory
vernacular_title: Balzac und die Grenzen der Psychologie.