Abstract

Husserl held his Freiburg lecture on May 3, 1917, after being appointed ordentlicher Professor at Freiburg University. This lecture provides a clear summary of Husserl’s phenomenology, as a discipline whose field of investigation coincides with pure consciousness and is completely different from that of naturalistic psychology. Unlike the Encyclopaedia Britannica article published in 1927, the inaugural lecture does not deal with phenomenological psychology. Psychology is only conceived of as a natural science and no distinction is introduced between transcendental phenomenology and pure phenomenological psychology