ABSTRACT
Wundt’s conception and development of a Völkerpsychologie is one of the main gaps in contemporary Wundt scholarship. Although there are contributions concerning single aspects of his project, there is no in-depth investigation about its core meaning and the integration of its parts. For Wundt, Völkerpsychologie was concerned with three distinct subject matters (language, myth, and custom), which would lead to a general theory of the collective mind and its development. However, in the last volume of his Völkerpsychologie, he wanted to offer a Psychologie der Kultur (psychology of culture). How should one understand this point? To what extent should Wundt’s Völkerpsychologie be considered a cultural psychology? The goal of this paper is to present and discuss Wundt’s concept of culture and its role in his psychological project. I conclude that culture is a very important part of Wundt’s psychology.
