Théodule Ribot , born with Guingamp the December 18th 1839 and died in Paris the December 9th 1916, is generally regarded as the founder of the French Psychologie.

Biography

Théodule Ribot studies with the college of Saint-Brieuc, then enters the administration. Two years later, it gives up its functions and settles with Paris. In 1864, it is allowed with the National university. It is received aggregate in 1866, then doctor in 1875.

He teaches philosophy with the colleges of Vesoul and Laval. He goes back then to Paris to devote to his research in experimental Psychologie. In 1885, it teaches this matter with the Sorbonne before obtaining in 1888 the pulpit of psychology experimental and compared with the Collège de France.

Work

In contemporary English Psychology (1870) and contemporary German Psychology (1879), Ribot present at the French public the results of the experimental psychology of the time and militates for a separation of psychology and philosophy and for the application of the methods of physiology and the natural science to the phenomena of the spirit and the feelings.

It thus conceives the feelings like effects, or better, according to him, as the objectivation of the activities of the physiological organization when this one reacts for example to representations: the feeling is not thus the cause which we redden, that our heart palpitates, etc, it is this activity of the organization as it is observable. Ribot is thus opposed this manner entirely to the intellectualist designs, and poses the assumption that the emotional life (physiological) is first.

It devotes many research to the clinical observation in the psychiatric institutions which lead to the publication of the Maladies of the memory (1881), of the Maladies of the will (1885) and of the Maladies of the personality (1883).

Works

• Psychologle English contemporary (1870)
• Heredity. Psychological examination (1873)
• the Philosophy of Schopenhauer (1874)
• contemporary German Psychology (1879)
• Diseases of the memory (1881)
• Diseases of the will (1882)
• Diseases of the personality (1885)
• the Psychology of the attention (1888)
• the Psychology of the feelings (1896)
• Evolution of the general ideas (1897)
• Test on creative imagination (1900)
• the Logic of the feelings (1904)
• Test on passions (1906)

Internal bond

• Re-examined philosophical of France and abroad

External bond

• Re-examined philosophical of France and abroad - Presentation by Théodule Ribot