ABSTRACT
Until the nineteenth century, it was philosophy that made the mind its business, investigating the nature of sense-perception, thought, memory, will, and how all these together – as psyche, anima – were related to body. With philosophy's monopoly on mind broken, many believed that psychology would supplant philosophy altogether. Thinkers like J. S. Mill sought to reduce "philosophical" problems to psychological ones, and make the conscious subject the foundation of all thinking. Natorp's "philosophy of mind" consequently cuts across disciplinary lines in unexpected ways. While Natorp's philosophy of mind is not mainly concerned with the psychological, subjective dimension of representations, he nevertheless does have views on the psyche. Critical psychology is the Penelopean project of undoing the knots and nodes at which determinate objects have been stitched into the tapestry of experience in order to reconstruct the antecedent stage of relatively indeterminate Erlebnis.
