HUSSERL ȘI FENOMENOLOGIA TRANSCENDENTALĂ: REFONDAREA PSIHOLOGIEI
Husserl and Phenomenology: Re-founding Psychology

Summary/Abstract: In his seminal writings about psychology as true, complete philosophy, Husserl indicates two distinctive ways leading to the full understanding of the being and of the world. The two ways are phenomenology, on the one hand, based on the inquiry of the living world as it is constituted originally and accessible to everybody through intuition. The second way is positive psychology, but only when it acknowledges his own purpose, namely explaining the human being as a soul, as a spirit on the ground on the living world. However, psychology did not follow its endeavor and chose to follow a different and unproductive way. Instead of using the valuable empirical observations gathered by generations and put them to work for the benefit of a profound phenomenological philosophy, it rather chose the path of the positive physical sciences and tried to explain the mind by using the methods and theories of those positive sciences. The hope that it is possible to explain one layer of the being, the mind/spirit, exactly as the other layer of the being, namely the body is explained by special sciences focusing on the movement of all objects, proved elusive. Despite some early progress, psychology is now trapped, unwilling to overpass the dead-end. That is why psychology has to be reformatted on the ground of a philosophy which cares about consciousness as a human soul embedded in the living world.

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