ABSTRACT

Psychology is indeed often described as the 'theory of the laws of the coming and going of the contents of consciousness', by which is meant that psychology has to investigate the laws of the sequence of conscious contents. Psychology is concerned with the conscious content qua contained, and with the whole variety of such contents in the time series. Logic is concerned with the something in so far as it is ordered, and psychology in so far as it is a conscious content. The self stands in it, but as something discontinuous in a continuity; it does not necessarily become continuous itself, simply because it is comprised within a framework of relations which is continuous. The mind is like an unconscious, unperceivable, and intangible organism with its own immanent law of activity. The concepts production, reproduction, association, constellation, determiningtendency, duty, latent disposition, and other concepts of the newer theory of the mind, play their role.