Abstract

How well is psychology equipped with vocabulary and methods to examine itself as an object of science studies? The position of psychological expertise as a distant judging observer offering imaginaries of human lives as homogenous and characterised by predictable features has become inadequate for contemporary lives in which categories and interrelations are increasingly challenged, and new vulnerabilities, mobilities and solidarities emerge. In order to respond to contemporary challenges and contribute to their resolution, psychology needs to reinvent itself. The notions of symmetry, general symmetry and multiplicity developed in Science and Technology Studies are helpful to equip psychology with a self-reflexive vocabulary. It can enable psychology it to examine its own modes of contributions and its adequacy to meet the challenges of human lives in contemporary society.