Philosophie, Phänomenologie und Psychologie. Husserl und der “zeitgemäße Anachronismus” der Phänomenologie der Gestaltpsychologie

Often there has been seen connections and continuity between the phenomenology of Husserl and the epistemological orientation of representatives of Gestalt psychology. In fact the two methodological procedures are quite different. In the era of Weimarer Republic the Berlin School used a combination of empirical research, philosophical reflexion, phenomenology and physiology, those conceptions – derived from the work of Stumpf – were their methodological guidelines until World War II. Compared to the ‘pure’ phenomenology and epistemology in times of the Weimarer Republic the gestalt phenomenology can be seen as ‘impure’ and ‘anachronistic’. In this paper the characteristics and the actuality of this ‘anachronism’ are discussed.