Wilhelm Dilthey

(1833 - 1911) - German philosopher and psychologist. Shared psychology into two fundamentally different in their methodology disciplines: analytical psychology ( 'nomothetic'), . explanatory, . whose aim is the selection in the introspective experience of 'atoms' and subsequent 'fusion' of these higher processes of consciousness, . and the psychology of narrative ( 'ideographic'), . which deals with the understanding on the basis of values, . characteristic of a particular culture, . psychic life of the individual in its integrity and uniqueness,
. Cultural values, according to Dilthey, 'objectified' in the psyche of the individual.