"VERSIONES QUE CAPTURO DEL OLVIDO". REFLEXIONES SOBRE EL SENTIDO DE LA HISTORIA DE LA PSICOLOGÍA

Abstract

Versions I recover from oblivion. Reflections on the significance of the History of Psychology.) Historiographical issues cannot be solved as if they were mere technical or methodological issues, as is the case in Franz Samelsons new History of Psychology (Samelson 1990). Explaining science in terms of social demands and consensuses of interests seems an unsatisfactory strategy as far as it does not seriosusly focuses what historical personages were discusing in the past, that is to say, Psychology itself. History of Psycholoy, we argue, is always linked to the exercise of a theoretical perspective which is not only historiographical but also psychological, and should be made explicit by the historian. We historians of Psychology are involved in a very significant paradox: we must narrate a discipline directly related to the problem of the knowledge and, simultaneously, we must use some type of theory of knowledge to justify our historiographical strategies. Recent critical historiography has actually chosen a nihilistic psychological viewpoint which upholds its relativistic conception of knowledge. This is probably neither the only nor the bests one of the psychological viewpoints worked away in Psychology. Anyway, the choice is a theoretical one and has to be justified in terms of theoretical psychology. A review

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