The James Cook University Queensland, Australia Current critiques of developmental theory impugn all walks of cognitive and empirical psychology. My difference with Valsiner is over how fundamental this renegotiation should be. He believes that psychologists simply 'lack adequate concepts' to capture the phenomena that interest them. I argue that the deficiencies of contemporary psychology, illustrated in my critique of the 'theory of mind' approach to children's thinking, must be righted by generating a new psychological poetic that refuses the aggrandizing consolations of the psychological sublime.
Psychology is potentially one of the most revolutionary exercises ever conceived by the mind of man.