What is Psychology?

Abstract This paper addresses the question "What is psychology?" and seeks to resolve some of its epistemological entanglements: its plurality, the definition of its object of study, and its presumed pre-scientific nature caused by an eternal struggle between schools of thought. It is concluded that psychology is not one discipline but many, and that to qualify as a science, it must be one of what are known as the "genetic functions." The paper also presents attempts to establish a foundation for this general psychology, ultimately proposing a controversial thesis: that such a project is impossible as it would necessarily remain philosophical. All these entanglements are attributed to the problematic nature of the ideas of function and finality.