The paper argues that transfer of assumptions, concepts, models and metaphors from a variety of Lamarckisms played a significant role in the endeavors to constitute psychology as a scientific discipline. It deals with such efforts in the second half of the nineteenth century and until early twentieth century in Britain and in France.

The paper discusses works by Herbert Spencer, John Hughlings-Jackson, Théodule Ribot and Sigmund Freud. It argues that certain crucial facets of their work as discipline-founders could and should be looked upon as resulting from such transfer of/from Lamarckisms. Specifically it looks at the constitutive roles of notions of hierarchical order, parallelism, self, memory and collectivity.

该论文认为，来自各种拉马克主义的假设，概念，模型和隐喻的转移在将心理学作为一门科学学科构成的努力中起着重要作用。它致力于在19世纪下半叶直到20世纪初在英国和法国的这种努力。

本文讨论了赫伯特·斯宾塞，约翰·休斯·杰克逊，蒂奥杜勒·里伯特和西格蒙德·弗洛伊德的作品。它认为，作为拉美纪律的建立者，他们工作的某些关键方面可以并且应该被视为是拉马克主义的这种转移的结果。具体来说，它考察了等级顺序，并行性，自我，记忆和集体性等概念的构成作用。