The object of Psychology I. The historicity of the object of Psychology

Abstract

This work is the first part of a synthetic analysis of the evolution of the object of psychology. The period elapsed between the primitive to the feudal european societies is presented here. It is shown the evolution of this object as the psychological knowledges increased. In this period the development of psychology had been significantly interfered by ideologically conditioned tendencies which tended to identify the subjective processes with metaphysic entities such a soul or spirit while the observation of behavior was limited to those which were not contradiction with the moral principles. As a consecquence the discipline has been for a long time kept under the aegis of phylosophy and theology preventing it to reach its metodological and technical maturity.