Tag: Biographies

A benchmark of psychoanalysis that created Interpersonal Psychoanalysis. The history of the study of psychology, although of relatively recent beginning, is full of important figures and of different schools and currents of thought. All of them have contributed their vision regarding the psyche and behavior, in some cases opposing each other. Among the different schools

This English thinker formulated the theory of speech acts. The philosophy of language is one of the most interesting currents born in modern philosophy and one of its great representatives is the protagonist of this article. John Langshaw Austin is perhaps the greatest of the philosophers of language along with John Searle, Noam Chomsky, and

A great research psychologist who devoted much of his life to studying facial expressions. Paul Ekman has been a pioneer in the study of human emotions and their relationship to facial expressions, as well as being known and noted for being among the 100 most influential psychologists of the century. During his almost 40 years

This controversial researcher applied the idea of ​​”survival of the fittest” to social analysis. Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was an English philosopher and sociologist who made a strong case for liberalism from the perspective of Social Darwinism. His theories greatly influenced the economy and theories of government of the 20th century. We will see below a

One of the historical figures that arouse the most contrary opinions due to the dominance he imposed. Iósif Vissariónovich Dzhugashvili, better known as Iósif Stalin  (1879 – 1953) is certainly the most important political figure in the entire history of the Slavic people, of the Russian ethnic group more specifically. Many will not know that

Lewontin is one of the most controversial evolutionary biologists, a strong opponent of genetic determinism. Richard Lewontin is known within his field, evolutionary biology, as a controversial character. He is a staunch opponent of genetic determinism, but he is still one of the greatest geneticists of the second half of the 20th century. He is

Who was Mikhail Bakhtin and what was his life and intellectual legacy in linguistics? Let’s see. Mikhail Bakhtin’s name is not well known. In fact, he himself did not wish to become famous and always surrounded himself by an aura of mystery and anonymity, either by his own will and desire or because the political

Wolff is one of the most important German philosophers in history. Let’s see why. Christian Wolff (1679-1754) was a rationalist German philosopher and mathematician, who stood out in the historical context of the Enlightenment, a movement both cultural and intellectual, especially active in Germany, France and England. This movement was committed to knowledge and its

A review of the life of this French thinker so influential in feminism. Simone de Beauvoir is one of the great minds of the 20th century. A great thinker, novelist and, although she did not recognize it, a feminist, her fight for women’s rights has meant a before and after to achieve gender equality. His

Horney was one of the first representatives of neo-Freudianism and feminist psychology. The psychiatrist Karen Horney was one of the leading representatives of neo-Freudism, a movement that challenged the conventions of traditional psychoanalysis and allowed this theoretical orientation to expand, especially in the field of neurosis. Horney was also the first female psychiatrist to publish