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
Whereas Kuhn's "paradigm" is an all-encompassing collection of beliefs and assumptions that result in the organization of scientific worldviews and practices, Foucault's "episteme" is not merely confined to science but to a wider range of discourse (all of science itself would fall under the "episteme" of the epoch).