“French's ideas in the beginnings of Psychology in Argentina around 1900”

KLAPPENBACH, HUGO

Cape Town

Congreso; 30th Internacional Congress of Psychology; 2012

Internacional Union of Psychological Science

First, the presentation analyzes the intellectual conditions that made possible the emergence of psychological studies in Argentina around 1900 and the Argentine’s reception of French thought. It will be point out that although laboratories of Experimental Psychology were established in the country since 1899, such laboratories were quite different to laboratories in Germany. First, because laboratories were used mainly with educational purposes, not with the aim to produce new psychological knowledge.  Second, because in Argentina the term “Experimental Psychology” was related with the concept of “Experimental Medicine” introduced by Claude Bernard in France. In such context, Experimental Psychology in Argentina meant Clinical Psychology oriented by the perspective of French psychopathology, specially by the works of Janet, Charcot and Grasset.