Transcendental Phenomenological Psychology: Introduction to Husserl's Psychology of Human ConsciousnessA phenomenological explanation of human consciousness has long been sought in regions of psychology since the discipline was first carved out of philosophical concepts and theories about the human condition. In its earliest years, Western psychology was faced with two possible directions for this explanation: an empirical naturalistic approach along with physics and biology, or a non-empirical eidetic approach along with logic and mathematics. Edmund Husserl took up the latter. His phenomenological tradition of inquiry successfully spanned nearly forty years until suddenly stopped and largely suppressed during the Second World War. This book recovers Husserl's revolutionary approach toward the human sciences, just as it was developed, and just as it is presented for further study. Here, the author systematically gathers what Husserl calls the "leading clues" in the phenomenological method proper for a psychology of affective inner experience, and then for the first time applies Husserl's own methodology for introducing a phenomenological psychology in the transcendental register of human consciousness. Unlike contemporary phenomenological psychology in the existential register, transcendental phenomenological psychology is presented as an eidetic non-empirical "act psychology" in Husserl's mature genetic phenomenology. This novel approach takes in the full range of solipsistic and transcendental subjectivity in Husserl's theories of human consciousness, and follows Husserl's lead in presenting phenomenological psychology as an "applied geometry" of intentional experience within a step-wise theory of inquiry. This book is unique in human science today, not only in its presentation of the development and applications of Husserl's key concepts for the discipline of psychology, but also for introducing a psychology that could be intuitively grasped as self-evidently valid wherever one's interest might lie. |
Contents
Beginning Considerations | 1 |
An Organization of Differences | 8 |
The Real and the Irreal | 15 |
Phenomenological Psychology in the Transcendental Register | 22 |
Pretheoretical Groundwork | 31 |
The Phenomenological Field of Actionality | 41 |
A Psychology of Consciousness Versus a Philosophy of Existence | 53 |
Husserls Nascent Phenomenology | 62 |
The Eidos of Theme | 163 |
Pure Psychology in Transcendental Consciousness | 172 |
The Dangerous FirstPerson Singular | 180 |
A Transcendental Logic of Objects and Acts | 184 |
An Affairness of Empathy | 195 |
The Psychological Epoché | 206 |
The Practical Performance of Psychosubjectivity | 213 |
The Eidetic Reduction in Pure Psychology | 223 |
A Science of Cognitions | 78 |
The Göttingen Years and a Question of Method | 84 |
The Early Freiburg Years and a Question of the Transcendental | 93 |
Our Natural Attitude and the LifeWorld | 100 |
Eidetic Affairness | 107 |
Husserls Last Years | 123 |
Husserls Basic Questions of Epistemology | 130 |
Embodiment | 136 |
The Horizon of Ontology | 151 |
The Transcendental Reduction in the Field of Actionality | 231 |
The Psychological Reduction | 238 |
Cognitive Mental Life in Transcendental Phenomenological Psychology | 245 |
The Psychological Experience of Rational Thought | 254 |
The Intentional Function of Intersubjectivity | 264 |
Generative Phenomenology and Psychology | 275 |
Final Reflections on Transcendental Phenomenological Psychology | 289 |
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