Wundt y la música: argumentos genealógicos para repensar la Psicología de la Música

Abstract

This article formulates the possibility of exploring the past of the Psychology to restore problems and issues that were banished, forgotten or neglected in the contemporary agenda of the Psychology of Music; these are aspects that may be important when redefining the field in view of the challenges resulting from the postmodern scenario. In our genealogical reconsideration of the Psychology of Music we have set “Elements of Folk Psychology” by W. Wundt as a starting point, a work where the master of Leipzig tried a reconsideration of the psychology of the human mind from the point of view of the cultural products and the socio-historical occurrence of collective activities. In Wundt’s opinion, art becomes together with myth, habit and language- one of the archetypal domains for the exploration of “man’s spiritual evolution”. In relation to that general frame, Wundt will pay close attention to the subject of the temporal arts, offering a peculiar ethnic-psychological view of them. Without discussing incompatibilities with the Helmoltzian tradition’s psycho- physiological and experimental approaches –those of Stumpf, Pratt, Seashore and even Wundt’s “Grundriß der Psychologie”- the folk psychology opens up an alternative scenario that complexes and enriches the “music issue” by incorporating instrumental, measurement, collective, empathic, functional, etc. factors that are hard-to-fit within the general and individualistic perspectives of the -either mechanicist or spiritualist- 19th Century’s psychologies.

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