Jose Marti Psychologist

Opinion

Exactly 165 years ago, in the town of San Cristóbal de La Habana, a traveling star is housed in the body and spirit of a beautiful child, which posterity would know as José Julián Martí Pérez (1853-1895), «immense Cuban that, according to Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler, a historian of Havana, he wrote about how much his sensitivity touched» Therefore, the thriving psychological science, cultivated in our midst by the venerable Father Felix Varela (1788- 1853), did not go unnoticed by a thinker of the exceptional stature of the Apostle. When the Master began to venture into the fields of poetry, literature and journalism, Psychology had broken its filial link with Philosophy (scio mater) and had become the science of the spirit. To understand why the founder of the Patria newspaper identifies Psychology with the science of the spirit, it would be necessary to specify the fact that this discipline studies the laws, categories and principles on which the psychic and spiritual life of Homo sapiens is structured. Spirituality is the set of actions that the person performs and that give full meaning to his life, and is Opinion