HUSSERL AND THE ARTICLE OF ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA (1927): PROJECT OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

The aim of this paper is the analysis of Edmund Husserl’s article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, published in 1927, explaining the project of a phenomenological psychology. Between the years 1926 until 1928, Husserl makes important developments concerning the topic of Phenomenology and phenomenological psychology, presenting the project of a phenomenological psychology in works like “Phenomenological Psychology” (1925), “Article for the Encyclopaedia Britannica” (1927), “Amsterdam Lectures” (1928), and “The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology” (1954). Husserl sought to establish a strict philosophy and, at the same time formulated a rational and pure psychology, namely, a phenomenological psychology inside the philosophical phenomenology. In addition to an introduction to the Phenomenology, Husserl contrast in the Article, the a priori pure psychology as the methodical foundation whereupon may in principle rise a scientifically rigorous empirical psychology, then it’s necessary to go to the proper philosophical phenomenology, understanding it in the face of psychology to genuinely think about the project that Husserl proposed. So, the importance of this study starts from the need to retake what is a truly phenomenological psychology