Abstract

SANTOS, Hernani Pereira dos. Husserl and Gurwitsch on Gestalt Psychology: a Study about "Sensualism". Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.spe, pp. 1108-1127. ISSN 1808-4281.  http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/epp.2020.56653.

In this study, phenomenology and Gestalt psychology are approached as from the subject of sensualism in the theory of perception. It is proposed an analysis of how Gestalt Psychology is evaluated within the phenomenological research system of Husserl and of Gurwitsch. It begins with a brief analysis of the problem, confronting the arguments of Husserl and Gurwitsch. In the second section, an analysis of the theory of perception developed by Husserl in Ideas I is proposed. It is shown how the concept of hylē plays there a central role. In the third section, the innovations in phenomenology developed by Gurwitsch taking on base his interpretation of Gestalt psychology are analyzed. It is shown how, for Gurwitsch, this psychological theory renews the phenomenological understanding of perceptual organization and, therefore, discards a certain interpretation of the concept of hylē based on a new concept of intentionality. In the final section, some conclusions are proposed for the two lines of argument studied.

Keywords : epistemology; form and shape perception; Gestalt Psychology; intentionality; phenomenology.

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