ABSTRACT
Psychology for Wundt was the basis of all the other sciences: It studies the processes with which they all begin and, thus, is prior to philosophy, logic, linguistics, and social analysis. When we go back to the older Leipzig depicted in 19th-century travelogues, city records, and demographic and cultural data. Shortly after Wundt arrived in Leipzig, his school of thought became widely known, at least in Europe if not America, as the voluntarist school because of its emphasis on volition and self-control. Wundt initially offered his new psychology in opposition to that legacy, opposing the old introspection with a new method of self-observation, which was to be scientific in that it would use objective procedures that were controllable and replicable. In Germany, too, there had long been a clash of cultural style between the Apollonian north and the Dionysian south. The more relaxed, gemutliche south contrasted with the formal, militaristic, Prussian north.
