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If one wishes to grasp clearly the significance of Husserl’s philosophy for contemporary psychology it is surely not enough to establish by a series of citations that in the publications of contemporary psychologists certain theses, thoughts, and concepts of the great German thinker occur in their original formulation. It would be a mistake to regard the rapidly increasing frequency with which we encounter the expressions “phenomenon” and “phenomenology,” “intentionality” and “act,” “life-world” and “bracketing,” and “intuition” in psychological papers as an unambiguous sign of Husserl’s direct and decisive influence on psychological thinking and methodological principles.
“Husserl’s Phenomenology and its Significance for Contemporary Psychology,” trans. Daniel O’Connor. From F.J.J. Buytendijk, Phaenomenologica 2: Husserl et la Pensée Moderne (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1959), pp. 79–98. Original title, Die Beaeutung Husserls für die Psychologie der Gegenwart .The translation appeared in Readings in Existential Phenomenology, edited by Nathaniel Lawrence and Daniel O’Connor and published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.
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Buytendijk, F.J.J. (1987). Husserl’s Phenomenology and Its Significance for Contemporary Psychology. In: Kockelmans, J.J. (eds) Phenomenological Psychology. Phaenomenologica, vol 103. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3589-1_2
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