The Context of Phenomenological Foundation for Psychology According to Edith Stein

The Context of Phenomenological Foundation for Psychology According to Edith Stein

Alessandra Alves Pelegrini 

The objective of the present exposition is to present the philosophical horizon in which Edith Stein dialogues in her project of philosophical foundation to psychology. In the first treatise of her work Philosophy of Psychology and Humanities (1922), entitled Psychic Causality, the author proposes a phenomenological investigation of this phenomenon, considered as an object of study for psychology, which forms the basis of epistemology foundation of it. A necessary step to understanding Edith Stein's contribution to this debate is to contextualize the process through which the constitution of psychology as an autonomous science became a philosophical project. Our exposition will therefore present these results, which were developed by German philosophical tradition of the 18th and 19th centuries and which Stein herself situated as contexts for her project.