Abstract
The Journal of the Paraguayan Institute, a cultural initiative that arose in the national intellectual atmosphere on the last decade of the 19th Century and the first of the 20th Century, was published between 1896 y 1909. In this journal spread some papers that constitute the early manifestations of a psychological thought in Paraguay. Although of theoretical features, the articles reflected the assimilation of ideas that were being discussed in the international psychology at that time. This article explores the contents of these essays and puts them in the historical context in which they emerged. The methodology is the documentary analysis of published sources, in particular the relevant articles for psychology contained in this journal. In the conclusion are analyzed the implications of these publications for the development of psychology in the preuniversity period.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.