One of the most important achievements of cultural psychology is its capacity to offer a plausible explanation of the links between "mind" and "culture": between the cognitive and emotional architecture adopted by the human mind, and the semiotic anatomy given structure by the world of cultures. But if psiche and ethnos are constitutive factors of culturalpsychology, no less important is the role of demos, the political factor that contextualizes both. However, historical evidence seems grosso modo to suggest the opposite: this dependency is notfilly registered in the main tenets of psycho-cultural projects. This article will analyse the triangularrelationship between psyche, ethnos and demos from a historically self-reflective perspective,...