"Object and Content. Husserlian Intentionality confronted to its Psychologist Heritage."

peer reviewedThis paper aims to show how Husserl’s concept of intentionality detaches itself from the background of a thorough and recurrent argument against psychologism. Noting that, primarily, the concept of intentionality was recovered by Brentano’s psychology, it seemed to us important to show how Husserl’s intentionality, as it is conceived in the Logical investigations, distinguishes itself from the “intentional inexistence” that Brentano describes in his Psychology from an empirical standpoint. Showing what parts of this psychology were rejected and what was maintained in Husserl’s theory should be the first concern of those who intend to study the phenomenological concept of intentionality