“…According to the famous Spanish philologist and historian Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Lenz's work constitutes the first essay on the application of Wundt's linguistic psychology studies to the Spanish language (Menéndez‐Pidal, 1920). Both Mann and Lenz are precursors of the research on what can be considered the “soul of the Chilean nation,” the “national identity” and the “collective representations,” inspired mainly by the German movement of Völkerpsychologie that took place in Germany from 1850 to 1955 and that had Moritz Lazarus, H. Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt, Rudolf Virchow, Werner Sombart and Max Weber as some of its main exponents (Klautke, 2013). Thus, Wilhelm Mann stated,The teachings derived from the experiments should be completed in an expository way, only with respect to the phenomena that are subtracted from such experimental production in these psychic establishments of the infants, important to understand the genesis of the psyche and also of the psychic processes of the abnormal and finally, much of what comprises the “psychology of communities or collectivities” (thus I translate the not very acceptable term: “völkerpsychologie” which is also translated as “psychology of peoples” or “multitudes”).…”
Section: Chilenidad the Project Of Völkerpsychologie In Chilementioning
This article provides a detailed analysis of the intellectual research project of Wilhelm Mann, one of the pioneers of experimental and educational psychology in Chile. Mann's work has been the object of so little analysis that his intellectual influences and networks are not clearly known. We analyzed 338 intratext citations from 22 works by Wilhelm Mann published during the period 1904–1915. As a result, we obtained a mapping of his cooperation networks and used a quantitative approach to study the authors who most influenced his career, among whom were William Stern, Herbert Spencer, Wilhelm Wundt, Alfred Binet, and Ernst Meumann. Mann was closely connected to the international and contemporary advances and discussions of his time, despite the lack of infrastructure and difficulties in communication. Mann was the first psychologist to develop a long‐term project in Chile that aimed to measure the individualities of Chilean students and their intellectual development.
“…According to the famous Spanish philologist and historian Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Lenz's work constitutes the first essay on the application of Wundt's linguistic psychology studies to the Spanish language (Menéndez‐Pidal, 1920). Both Mann and Lenz are precursors of the research on what can be considered the “soul of the Chilean nation,” the “national identity” and the “collective representations,” inspired mainly by the German movement of Völkerpsychologie that took place in Germany from 1850 to 1955 and that had Moritz Lazarus, H. Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt, Rudolf Virchow, Werner Sombart and Max Weber as some of its main exponents (Klautke, 2013). Thus, Wilhelm Mann stated,The teachings derived from the experiments should be completed in an expository way, only with respect to the phenomena that are subtracted from such experimental production in these psychic establishments of the infants, important to understand the genesis of the psyche and also of the psychic processes of the abnormal and finally, much of what comprises the “psychology of communities or collectivities” (thus I translate the not very acceptable term: “völkerpsychologie” which is also translated as “psychology of peoples” or “multitudes”).…”
Section: Chilenidad the Project Of Völkerpsychologie In Chilementioning
This article provides a detailed analysis of the intellectual research project of Wilhelm Mann, one of the pioneers of experimental and educational psychology in Chile. Mann's work has been the object of so little analysis that his intellectual influences and networks are not clearly known. We analyzed 338 intratext citations from 22 works by Wilhelm Mann published during the period 1904–1915. As a result, we obtained a mapping of his cooperation networks and used a quantitative approach to study the authors who most influenced his career, among whom were William Stern, Herbert Spencer, Wilhelm Wundt, Alfred Binet, and Ernst Meumann. Mann was closely connected to the international and contemporary advances and discussions of his time, despite the lack of infrastructure and difficulties in communication. Mann was the first psychologist to develop a long‐term project in Chile that aimed to measure the individualities of Chilean students and their intellectual development.
“…Through a historico-comparative working method, the complex psychological processes could be approached indirectly, based on the cultural interpretation in the language, art, customs, or myths of the diverse historical or contemporary peoples. The work was published in German, and only a part of his complex ideas came to be transmitted in other languages through sections or chapters of other, less lengthy works (Jahoda, 1992; for a book-length study of Völkerpsychologie in English, see, e.g., Klautke, 2013).…”
Section: Odum and Wundt's Völkerpsychologie: Important Parallelsmentioning
This study focuses on the analysis of the early work of Howard W. Odum (1884-1954) and the examination of the psychological aspects that marked his reflection on African American music. This analysis reveals many of the aspects that were generically shared by the psychological agenda of the period when analyzing aesthetic experience and activity. Outstanding among these are the relationship of the musical phenomenon with very basic or primary affective-emotional dimensions, the conception of the musical phenomenon as an indicator of the cognitive-affective development of human groups, its expression in the form of cultural and complex intersubjective products, or its possible participation in the technoscientific design of social reform and progress. The simultaneous treatment of all of these aspects in Odum's work brings to light the interdisciplinary framework in which early psychology moved, while revealing the theoretical and ideological contradictions and controversies that enveloped the discipline, above all, at the point where it attempted to place itself at the service of the constitution of self-governed individuals. All in all, Odum's work also reflects the crucial role that early psychology attributed to art as a privileged medium to give meaning to experience and the human being's vital purposes. (PsycINFO Database Record
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