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 development 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 intellectualist categories of the old metaphysics – is not limited to a simple scientific representation of psychic phenomena, but captures “the truth about man”, his “very essence as spirit”.