Publicaciones psicológicas en la Revista del InstitutoParaguayo

Abstract

The Journal of the Paraguayan Institute, a cultural initiative that arose in the national intellectual atmosphere on the last decade of the 19th Century and the first of the 20th Century, was published between 1896 y 1909. In this journal spread some papers that constitute the early manifestations of a psychological thought in Paraguay. Although of theoretical features, the articles reflected the assimilation of ideas that were being discussed in the international psychology at that time. This article explores the contents of these essays and puts them in the historical context in which they emerged. The methodology is the documentary analysis of published sources, in particular the relevant articles for psychology contained in this journal. In the conclusion are analyzed the implications of these publications for the development of psychology in the preuniversity period.