Overcoming Psychologism: Husserl and the Transcendental Reform of Psychology by Larry Davidson

Overcoming Psychologism: Husserl and the Transcendental Reform of Psychology by Larry Davidson

Author:Larry Davidson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030599324
Publisher: Springer International Publishing


If eidetic psychology is to clarify for empirical psychology the nature of the psychic and the methods appropriate for its study, it must utilize the phenomenological reduction as the method most appropriate to the intentional nature of the psychic as pure consciousness.

The view espoused here is thus apparently contrary to the one presented in Ideas II, for in that text we were led to believe that a phenomenological reduction was not to be performed, and that the personal attitude of human science was itself a natural attitude. At that time, we did not stop to consider the nature of the psychic and the demands that this would make on our method. As Husserl remarks here, that “is precisely a further main point” (1977b, p. 169). When we look more deeply into the essence of the psychic, we discover that its distinctiveness is only captured adequately in an intentional view, and that this requires that we employ a reduction. While this may complicate matters in relation to philosophy, this move is extremely important for psychology in that it is only through this acknowledgement and appreciation of intentionality that our phenomenological psychology is able to transcend fully the naturalistic tradition that has consistently falsified its subject matter. In Husserl’s view:Mistakes in the attempts of psychologists to form descriptive concepts of the psychic itself rest on the fact that they are incapable of seeing intentionality in its specific character and of treating it accordingly… [But] whoever does not see what is essential to intentionality and the particular methodology pertaining to it, does not see what is essential to personality and personal productions either (1977b, pp. 167n, 169).



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