The "anti psychologism" in Husserl and Heidegger: from consciousness to dasein

Abstract

Our aim is to propose a dialogue between Husserl and Heidegger relating them from the criticism that these philosophers present to the investigation of naturalistic aspect about man, predominant in the philosophical tradition. For Husserl, the domain of naturalism represents the influence of Experimental Psychology on philosophy, Heidegger, in turn, highlights the anthropological thematic found in the history of philosophy. According to the first, "psychologism" entails the reduction of man to his empirical components, and to the second, "anthropologism" is equivalent to a process of man’s reification. "Psychologism" and "anthropologism" are inadequate reflections because they equate man with the natural object, that is, reflections that do not consider man's true sense of being, ignoring intentional consciousness and existence. Thus Husserl and Heidegger share the attempt to make philosophy return to that true essence of man, that is, both philosophers advocate the denaturalization of reflection and develop phenomenology as the exercise of this return.