Epistemological psychology
The term episteme is related to the Greek word επιστήμη, which translates literally as "standing near or by that which causes" but is often simplified as "knowledge" or "science". By ignoring ego interests the core impetus or the essence of a deed, real or imagined, is recovered.
Episteme
Kuhn's paradigm shifts are a consequence of a series of conscious decisions made by scientists to pursue a neglected set of questions. Foucault's "episteme" is something like the 'epistemological unconscious' of an era; the resultant configuration of knowledge of a particular "episteme" is, to Foucault, based on a set of primordial, fundamental assumptions that are so basic to the "episteme" that they're experientially "invisible" to the constituents (such as people, organizations, or systems) operating within the "episteme."