Gaston Bachelard, a French philosopher, founder of the "historical epistemology" (Rheinberger), coined the paradigm shifts of physics in the early 20th century, epistemic breaks. Psychology was not a discipline studied in that sense that it could serve him as a good example for finding epistemic breaks. However, looking at the research of the contributions to this panel, we might find these breaks also in psychology, especially in relation to causation and causality. This paper discusses how the incorporation of new methods, models and technologies leads to theoretical shifts. With Bachelard, it illuminates that the „phenomenotechnology" that makes new aspects visible and available to research is paramount. The paper continues to reflect on parallels of the „historical epistemology“ and the enterprise of Critical Psychology to develop concepts and methods in psychology methodologically, thereby following ideas that were discussed, among others, by Vygotsky and Lewin. It ends with the question whether the concept of circular causality connects to a historical perspective of psychological theorizing.