This paper is about part of the work of Walter Benjamin devoted to philosophical and political questioning of childhood, with the aim of contributing to the deepening of discussions in the field of Psychology about the concept of childhood and its historic sense. Walter Benjamin can be considered an important interlocutor for critical inquiry in Psychology around the children and dialogical relationship between children and adults. After suggesting the fruitfulness of the approach, the paper turns to the Walter Benjamin's characterization of the experience of childhood, one of the most important aspects of his theoretical and political effort to elaborate one materialist concept of history, attentive to the calls of the vanquished and the incompleteness of the past.
psychology; philosophy; childhood; history; Walter Benjamin