Wilhelm Wundt Reflection

Individual Reflection

Written by:

Wan Noor Azmira Wan Mahamod

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“You are not a prisoner of your past” It was three years ago when I heard this phrase for the first time at Islam and Psychology class. This phrase is keep replaying in my head whenever I listening and reading historical accounts of psychology scholars.It seems that most of the scholars has going through abundance of painful experiences. Some of them has such sad and lonely childhood. Despite of that, they are successful. Their painful past and traumatic experiences did not hinder them from achieving their goals. Nor did they use the dark episodes of their life as a justification towards their shortcoming and failures. This is such a surreal experience to me . Somehow, I feel like they are talking to me. I feel like be judged by these scholars. It seems like they are appointed towards themselves and telling me that they has going through a lot of struggles in their life. That some of their obstacles are much more harder than my own struggles. And, yet they did not let themselves succumbs in the abyss of darkness. Nor did they continue to delve into self pity

Hence,studying the historical background of Wilhelm Wundt for group assignment is an enjoyable task to me. If there is similarity between me and Wilhelm Wundt, is that we are both frequently living in our head. Nevertheless, it still challenging for me to thoroughly understand the Wilhelm Wundt theories and concepts such as voluntarism,and apperception . Besides, it takes such a long periods of time for me to truly able to distinguish between mediate and immediate experience. For that reason, I started research for Wilhelm Wundt resources in my mother tongue language on the internet. Initially, I thought reading the materials in my first language will make the process of understanding easier. Unfortunately, I was wrong. Somehow, reading the theories and concept in bahasa left me more