Contributions of the Phenomenology of the Unconscious to Psychology: Subjectivity, Time, Memory and Affectivity

Abstract

This study retrieves the idea of the unconscious from Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological analysis, aiming to contribute and add to the foundations of psychological science. A theoretical research and a bibliographic study were carried out, their guideline being the philosopher’s own analytical-investigative path. Such was done intending to highlight the importance of this analysis for understanding the concept of subjectivity and its implications for the reflection on time, memory, and affectivity, elements that compose individual and collective history. Husserl assesses the notion of the unconscious linked to acts of affection and of horizon - their content, which stands out in passive associative synthesis, is realized in the flow of intentional consciousness. The necessity to emphasize the need to consider the implicit in human experience on all levels, which includes the matter of the “enigma of the unconscious”, an essential contribution to the foundation of Psychology and to the human sciences.