The phenomenological and the psychological approach to consciousness

pp. 99-118

in: Aron Gurwitsch, The collected works of Aron Gurwitsch (1901–1973) II, Berlin, Springer, 2010

Abstract

Both phenomenology and psychology are concerned with consciousness in general as well as with specific acts of consciousness such as perception, memory, comprehension of meaning, reasoning, etc. Yet, the theoretical orientation and perspective in which consciousness is studied in psychology is highly different from that of phenomenology.