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l'Information Psychiatrique. Volume 84, Number 3, 213-8, mars 2008, troubles de la personnalité (2)

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Author(s) : Saïd Chebili

Summary : Personality: a philosophical approach.Philosophers have also set the question of personality at the heart of their reflections. We will distinguish three stages. The first favours the theological point of view, which, from Antiquity, with Plotinus and his famous theory of hypostases, placed the soul in strict dependence on the One, of which it was only an emanation. It raised the question of the same and the other that can be found in the second, metaphysical period, with Locke and Hume, who studied personality through the question of personal identity, to which they endeavoured to give criteria. These authors sought to understand how man remains a person despite all the changes he goes through in time. Finally, Bergson elaborates a psychological and dynamic concept of personality, which, steeped in its past, projects permanently into the future. His method, intuition, links into the phenomenological current.

Keywords : hypostasis, philosophy, personality, identity, psychology