The article intends to distinguish the way structure is regarded by psychology from the way it is conceived in psychoanalysis, with the aim of analyzing the specificity of the idea of structure in psychoanalytical theory and its importance in relation to temporality. To this effect, psychological structure is seen firstly from the point of view of psychological Gestaltism, a structuralism without genesis, and secondly, in Piagetian theory, which introduces genesis into structure. In psychoanalytical structure temporality is of the order of actualization, as it can be seen in the concept of a posteriori (Nachträglichkeit).
Structure; Temporality; Gestaltism; Piagetian theory; Psychoanalytical structure