What does Husserl designate by "psychologism" ? He has in mind the aim of all "depth psychology" - whether clinical or experimental - to theorize consciousness as a mere stratum or derivative of biology. It would appear that empirical procedures can arrive at the veridical essential dynamics of life by omitting consciousness altogether. Such an omission has occurred because consciousness was always surmised - in its "immediate pregivenness" - as nothing that in itself needs expounding. And so we have progressed "deeper" - into the Freudian mechanism of libidinal instincts; and, determinately deepest, to a genetic status of "mind" whose very existence is surmised quantifiable by degrees of astute performance.
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