Algunas mostraciones de una tensión genealógica en las historias de las psicologías en Colombia

Abstract

This article, about the history of psychology in Colombia, seeks to highlight different historical manifestations of the same tension, founding, following a genealogical method, in the manner of Foucault and Nietzsche, which does not respect a linear chronological order, but assumes the spiral of history, in which we can find repetitions of the same categories, as Hegel enunciated and we have sustained in previous writings. Indeed, from a phrase published in the newspaper El Espectador approximately in 1978, the article returns to the conquest of South America where the same tension emerges with another face, that of the slave traders, then jumps to the proposals theoretical and empirical studies of a nineteenth-century author in the United States, considered the founder of a psychological school, to then consider the original proposals of psychometrics, which are brought from Europe, from the Geneva school to our country by Mercedes Rodrigo Bellido, who is considered founder of the first psychology faculty in the country. The article then reviews the purposes and intentions that could have Mercedes Rodrigo, contrasting them with the eugenic ideas of some thinkers of that time and of today.