List of Figures and Tables
Ad Limen
Chapter 1 The “Century of Psychology”
Psychology as a “discipline”
A long past but a short history?
Chapter 2 “Psychology” in the Sixteenth Century: A Project in the Making?
The function of the neologism “psychology”
Aristotelianism and Galenism
Psychologia and the scientia de anima
Rudolph Goclenius’s Psychologia
Chapter 3 From the Science of the Living Being to the Science of the Human Mind
Psychology as the generic science of the living being
Psychologia and empsychologia
On whether de anima books can themselves constitute a science
From soul-form to soul-mind
Psychology as a metaphysics of the rational soul
The new psychology: Christian Wolff
Chapter 4 Psychology in the Age of Enlightenment
Psychology, anthropology and the human sciences
A Republic of Letters
Methodological discussions in Enlightenment psychology
“The best way to perfect this fine Science”
Chapter 5 Historicizing Psychology
Inventing a bibliographic tradition
Constructing a history for psychology
“Psychologiae historico-criticae speciminae”
The history of the “theory of ideas”
Philosophers write the history of psychology
Chapter 6 Psychology and the History of Humankind
Friedrich August Carus and the “history of humanity”
The primitives and the ancients
Toward a total history of psychology
The psychology of the Hebrews
Homeric psychology
Chapter 7 Anthropology’s Place in the Encyclopedias
Enlightenment encyclopedias
The Syntax of the Encyclopédies
The Paris and Yverdon Encyclopédies
The “Systèmes figurés”
Anthropology in the text
The anthropological transformation of morals
Chapter 8 Human Perfectibility and the Primacy of Psychology
Psychology in the Paris Encyclopédie
Psychology in the Yverdon Encyclopédie
The fields claimed for psychology
Metaphysics
Logic
Morals
The psycho-anthropology of perfectibility
The union and interaction of the soul and the body
Chapter 9 Psychology, the Body and Personal Identity
The soul, the body and the “completeness of the nerve”
Psycho-theology and “modern identity”
The body in resurrection
The loss of the body
The seed and the brain
The emergence of the cerebral subject
Appendix I The Two Editions of Goclenius’s Psychologia
Appendix II ANTHROPOLOGIE and PSYCHOLOGIE in the Paris and Yverdon Encyclopédies
Appendix III Articles from the Yverdon Encyclopédie Belonging to Psychology and Their Place in the Paris Encyclopédie
Bibliography
Index
