Theodule Armand Ribot

Essay on the Creative Imagination (Dodo Press) Theodule Armand Ribot

Théodule-Armand Ribot (1839-1916), French psychologist, was born at Guingamp, and educated at the Lycée de St. Brieuc. He was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure in 1862. His thesis for his doctors? degree, Hérédité: Etude Psychologique (1875), was his most important and best known book. In his work on La Psychologie Anglaise Contemporaine: l?École Expérimentale (1870), he showed his sympathy with the sensationalist school, and again in his translation of Herbert Spencer?s Principles of Psychology. Besides numerous articles, he wrote on Arthur Schopenhauer, (Philosophie de Schopenhauer, 1874), and on the contemporary psychology of Germany (La Psychologie Allemande Contemporaine, 1879), also four little monographs on Les Maladies de la Mémoire (1881); De la Volonté (1883); De la Personnalité (1885); and La Psychologie de l?Attention (1888), which supplied useful data to the study of mental illness. In 1885 he gave a course of lectures on Experimental Psychology at the Sorbonne, and in 1888 was appointed professor of that subject at the College of France.