Zagadka podmiotowości w psychologii opisowej Franza Brentany
The problem of subjectivity in Franz Brentano’s descriptive psychology

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyse possible experience in Franz Brentano’s Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint. The analytical and integral study of possible mental experiences allows us to discern a transcendental premise in empirically orientated psychology. The ambiguity of Brentano’s project is most fully manifest in the problem of subjectivity: it is approached from an empirical (the subject as such and not some other intentional bundle or subjectivity as a point on the map of possible references) and transcendental perspective (the subject as a condition of every intentional bundle or subjectivity as enabling the map of experience to be drawn). We find neither a formulation nor a solution to this ambiguity on the pages of the young Brentano’s philosophical treatise: they remain in the hands of the reader drawing on the tools of his Psychology.

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