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A monistic interpretation of Wundt's psychology

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It is argued that the pivot of Wundt's psychological system can be found in the concept of the mind (Seele) as the dynamic connection (Zusammenhang) of the mental processes.

This concept is shown to provide the conceptual basis of the entire Wundtian system. It can be found under various labels depending on the angle from which it is approached. From this point of view the distinctions between apperception and association, psychic and physical causality, and immediate and mediate experience are examined. Against their traditional dualistic interpretation it is maintained that these distinctions should receive a monistic interpretation.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Free University, De Boelelaan 1081, 1007 MC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    H. V. Rappard

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This paper is an abbreviated and slightly reworked version of the fourth chapter, ‘Wundt's voluntarism,’ of my ‘Psychology as self-knowledge,’ Assen: Van Gorcum & Co. 1979

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Rappard, H.V. A monistic interpretation of Wundt's psychology. Psychol. Res 42, 123–134 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00308697

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