Postmodern psychology: A contradictio in adjecto?

Abstract

In art and philosophy, the current age is described as a postmodern age. Psychology is a project of modernity, coming into use as a term during the Age of Enlightenment and founded as a science in the late nineteenth century. If these two premises are correct — that is of psychology as a modern project and the current age as postmodern — the science of psychology may be out of touch with the current age. Then the two terms psychology and postmodernity are incompatible, and a postmodern psychology is a contradictio in adjecto.