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THIS is the third book on psychology which Prof. Wundt has written, and its special aim is to give an account of the general principles of the science apart from physiological considerations on the one hand, and philosophical on the other. Technical details are to a large extent omitted, the reader being referred for them to the “Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie.” The book resembles in many respects Külpe's “Outlines,” and it seems as if the author intended it to correct the departures from the Wundtian standpoint which are to be found in the latter. A novel feature of the book is the description of ideas, emotions and volitions as psychical structures (“Gebilde”), with the reservation, however, that both the structure and the elements of which they are composed are to be regarded as processes and not as objects. After considering psychical elements and “Gebilde,” the subjects of consciousness and attention, association and apperception take up a third section; the fourth section treats of mental development in the animal and the child, and the book concludes with the formulation of certain laws of psychical causality.
Grundriss der Psychologie.
By Wilhelm Wundt. Pp. xvi + 392. (Leipzig: Wm. Engelmann, 1896.)
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Grundriss der Psychologie. Nature 53, 604 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053604a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/053604a0