In this essay, Florentino Blanco analyzes some of the cultural consequences of that paradoxical situation in which academic psychology seems to be trapped from its very origins: the mind (the subject) is the only known object that has proposed to analyze itself. This paradox has made psychological culture a critical culture. The crisis of psychology is not a provisional stage on the road to epistemological maturity. The crisis is, rather, the natural state of psychology. Or it will be as long as the subject itself is condemned to diversity. The history of psychology is the cultural chronicle of the psychological subject, the subject that makes our way of life possible. Psychology becomes viable in our culture by rationally participating in the debate about the limits of subjectivity. So psychology can only stop being in crisis in a medieval society, a society capable of stabilizing the images of the subject in the mirror of history. For this reason, the cultivation of the mind, the obsession with thinking of ourselves as subjects, is perhaps the most dense and fascinating task to which modern man has given himself.