Alcune riflessioni sulla psicologia di Hegel

Some reflections on Hegel’s psychology. The confrontation with the psychology of his time, both under an empirical and under a rational point of view, convinces Hegel that a radical reform of this discipline, which had not been touched, in his view, by the great excitement that went through philosophy after Kant, is needed. By tracing the devel-opment of Hegel’s psychology since the Bern manuscript about psychology and transcendental philosophy (1794), this article attempts to bring out the speculative route through which Hegel comes to theorize a psychology that – by distancing itself from the abstract in-tellectualist categories of the old metaphysics – is not limited to a simple scientific rep-resentation of psychic phenomena, but captures “the truth about man”, his “very essence as spirit”.