심리학서설.AN INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY, BY WILHELM WUNDT
An Introduction to Psychology
Translated from the Second German Edition
Author: Wilhelm Max Wundt
by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Translated by
Rudolf Pintner

AUTHOR'S PREFACE

It is not the intention of this introduction to psychology to
discuss the scientific or philosophical conceptions of
psychology, or even to make a survey of the investigations
and their results. What this little book attempts is rather to
introduce the reader to the principal thoughts underlying
present- day experimental psychology, leaving out many
facts and methods which would be necessary for a
thorough study of the subject. To omit all mention of
experimental methods and their results is at the present day
impossible. Yet we only need to consider a comparatively
small number of results of the first importance in order to
comprehend the basal principles of the new psychology. To
characterise the methods of this psychology it would be
impossible to omit all reference to experiments, but we can
and will omit reference to the more or less complicated
instruments on which the carrying out of such experiments
depends. I must refer the reader who wishes a fuller
account of the new psychology to my Outlines of
Psychology, which also contains the necessary bibliography
of the subject.
WILHELM WUNDT
LEIPSIC, June 1911.
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
The present volume is a popular introduction to the
Wundtian psychology. It is a shorter and simpler sketch
than the same author's Outlines of Psychology, and it
should prove invaluable to the English- speaking student
who wishes to gain some conception of the subject before
entering upon a deeper study of the same. Its popularity in
Germany has been phenomenal.
In translating the work the translator has, as far as possible,
used the same English terms as those employed in the
translations of Wundt by Judd and Titchener.
He is greatly indebted to Mr. Robert Wilson, M.A., B.Sc., for
his advice and help in reading over the manuscript before
going to press.
RUDOLF PINTNER
EDINBURGH, May 1912.

심리학서설.AN INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY, BY WILHELM WUNDT

CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CONSCIOUSNESS AND ATTENTION
Psychology as a description of processes of
consciousness―The metronome―The rhythmical
disposition of consciousness―The scope of
consciousness―The threshold of consciousness―The
fixation- point and field of consciousness―The focus of
attention―The scope of attention―Apprehension and
apperception
CHAPTER II
THE ELEMENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Psychical elements and compounds―Sensation and idea―
Memory images and perceptions―Quality and intensity of
sensations―Feelings―Difference between sensation and
feeling―The three pairs of feelings―The affective
process―Emotions and moods―Volitional processes―
Motives―Instinctive, voluntary, and discriminative actions―
The qualities of feelings―Feeling and apperception
CHAPTER III
ASSOCIATION
Associations and apperceptions―The fusion of tones into
clangs―Spatial and temporal perception―Assimilation and
dissimilation―Direct and reproduced forms of the same―
Complications―The recognition and cognition of objects―
Successive association―The so- called "feeling of
familiarity"―Secondary ideas―The affective processes in
recognition―The so- called states of consciousness in
forgetting, remembering, &c.―Memory associations
CHAPTER IV
APPERCEPTION
General characteristics of apperceptive combinations as
compared to associations―The aggregate idea and its
analysis―Concrete and abstract thought―Speech and
thought―Understanding and imagination―Examples of
primitive forms of speech in the language of primitive
races―Development of apperceptive combinations out of
associative ones―Inadequacy of the method of
introspection in dealing with the psychological problems of
thought―Psychology of language and race
CHAPTER V
THE LAWS OF PSYCHICAL LIFE

The relation between psychical and natural laws―The
psycho- physical individual―The question as to the
universal validity of the laws―The principle of creative
resultants―The principle of heterogony of ends―The
principle of conditioning relations―The principle of
intensifying contrasts―The psychological and physical
standpoints―Relation between physical and psychical
values―Physical and psychical elements―The nature of the
soul―Mythological views―The "substance" hypothesis―
The principle of the actuality of mind