Psychological Theory

When the texts of aristotle were translated into latin, there was a challenge to try to understand how psychology could be a science. And what eventually they came to devise was a system for thinking about the mind that was based on aristotle, but had a special character. We call it now, dismissively, the mediaeval version, we call dismissively faculty psychology. The basic idea is that to explain psychological phenomena, you postulate certain kinds of sub personal centres of activity within the soul. I am just speaking of the soul broadly here. This could be aa the level of sense tonor at the level of thought. And these centres of activity exchange information back and forth. So