...a work of psychology?
It is an expert work of speculative reasoning and discussion of motivation, mind and behaviour, it does posit that something other than rational thought is responsible for deeds and decisions, a little like a theory of affect and emotion as primary drivers, and it does talk about character.
I think perhaps it is, at least in as much as William James and others were psychologists and it compares well to some early, early theorists such as Alfred Adler, in my opinion at least, and much of psychoanalysis and depth psychology is regarded as being largely of literary merit primarily or completely by most neo-behaviourists and cognitivists.
It is an expert work of speculative reasoning and discussion of motivation, mind and behaviour, it does posit that something other than rational thought is responsible for deeds and decisions, a little like a theory of affect and emotion as primary drivers, and it does talk about character.
I think perhaps it is, at least in as much as William James and others were psychologists and it compares well to some early, early theorists such as Alfred Adler, in my opinion at least, and much of psychoanalysis and depth psychology is regarded as being largely of literary merit primarily or completely by most neo-behaviourists and cognitivists.