Social backwardness: an introduction to the psychology of the oppressed person

Mostafa Hegazy

This attempt is based systematically on the observation and psychological and social analysis of lived phenomena. It falls within the framework of clinical social psychology, which studies psychosocial phenomena in a clinical manner, and the fact that it is not based on strictly defined field or experimental research may raise some shadows of doubt about the degree of certainty enjoyed by its results. It is correct and there is no doubt that the purpose of this attempt is not to reach final results, as this requires lengthy research.
What it aims to do is to write a kind of introduction to the psychology of underdevelopment, and its very rich contribution to the results that complement the social and economic studies of this phenomenon. The value of this basic attempt is to present a psychological methodology for the study of the underdeveloped person, and his very rich contribution to the results that complement the social and economic studies of this phenomenon. The value of this basic attempt is to put forward a psychological methodology to study the underdeveloped person, with his various existential characteristics. This methodology shows, without a doubt, that this existence is coherent in its phenomena despite its diversity and dispersion, and it is organized in a dynamic structure, which is the position of the oppressed person.
This attempt, with its gaps, aspires to open the way for field psychological research, trying to understand the underdeveloped person with his type, specificity, and situation, in a lively and realistic manner, to be the pillars of the psychology of underdevelopment, with that alone we can finally put an end to this human being’s theoretical molds, and objective interpretations of a human being. The industrial world, which led to hasty generalizations, the result of which was that it deviated from its epistemological purpose, given the danger it carries of concealing and obscuring the true reality. This attempt would have achieved its goal if its data were able to adopt the nature of practical assumptions that launch field research with sufficient accuracy and depth to understand the reality of our Arab people.