Tres momentos, una idea. Un concepto filosófico acerca del desarrollo del ser humano presente en la psicología contemporánea

There are philosophical links between Romantic thought, materialistic positivism, psychoanalysis and some central ideas of current neurosciences. One of them, with many theoretical and practical consequences, is the metaphysical thesis that identifies the ‘temporal order’ and the ‘order of nature’ in human development —the expressions belong to St. Thomas Aquinas—. This hypothesis is illustrated here with the comparison betweenthree moments in the history of psychology, having Cesare Lombroso, Sigmund Freud and Antonio Damasio as protagonists.