ARCHIVES DE PSYCHOLOGIE, LES

Les archives de psychologie was founded in 1902 by Théodore Flournoy andÉdouard Claparède. Though the review was eclectic and devoted itself to all aspects of psychology, principal areas of interest were psychic phenomena, the psychology of normal and abnormal children, and psychopathology.

Théodore Flournoy was then a professor of experimental psychology in the Department of Science at the University of Geneva. He was interested in obscure phenomena disdained by official science: genius, mysticism, metapsychic phenomena.Édouard Claparède, his assistant, had an interest in psychopedagogics.

From the beginning of the century until World War I, the review played a pioneering role in spreading an awareness of psychoanalysis throughout French-speaking countries. Psychoanalytic publications in German were regularly printed and analyzed. Many original articles were directly related to Freudian theory, including the work of Alphonse Maeder, Paul Menzerath, Pierre Bovet (then codirector of the Institut Jean-Jacques Rousseau), Paul Ladame, and Carl Gustav Jung. After Freud and Jung split in 1913, the review refused to take a stance between the two camps.

Upon the death of Théodore Flournoy in 1920, the review obtained the help of Jean Piaget, who reinforced the focus on child psychology and applied psychology. After 1930 the review devoted almost no space to psychoanalysis.

Annick Ohayon

See also: Claparède,Édouard; Flournoy, Théodore; Piaget, Jean.

Bibliography

Bovet, Pierre. (1913). Un rêve expliqué. Archives de psychologie, 13, 380-383.

Maeder, Alphonse. (1907). Essai d'interprétation de quelques rêves. Archives de psychologie, 6, 354-375.

Menzerath, Paul. (1912). Contributionà la psycho-analyse. Archives de psychologie, 12, 372-389.

Piaget, Jean. (1923). La pensée symbolique et la pensée de l'enfant. Archives de psychologie, 18 (72), 273-304.