In this article considerations are elaborated concerning the theoretical and methodological importance of considering the individual in a context, under a social - historical approach. A double conception of this object of study was noted: "The real men", "concret individuals" living in the world of alienation, which deforms, mutilates and limits their evolution; and the "representative, total or true men", who correspond to the image of their historical possibilities. This article presents the beginning of a discussion about this object, without the intention of exhausting it, or of explaining the many facets that compose it.
psychology and marxism; appropriation; individuals and socials values; representative individual