The present paper reviews two historiographic traditions within psychological field: the Anglo-Saxon historiographic tradition, introduced by Boring in the United States, and the psychoanalytical historiographic tradition, introduced by Jones in England. The name historiographic tradition is proposed to describe the historiographic operations and reconstructions that sift the knowledge of the history of psychology and psychoanalysis. The research points out the historiographic bases of both traditions from the point of view of historical studies. Some concepts from the historians Eric Hobsbawm and Jose Luis Romero are analyzed as well as the mythical significance of both traditions.
Historiographic tradition; psychology; psychoanalysis
