Fragmentary thinking and Psychology in Henri Bergson

Abstract

This article aims at studying some psychological reflections of the Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness. First, it is important to make a critique of mechanicism and associationism in order to comprehend their intellectual modus operandi, recognizing that mental reality escapes from all intelligent procedures: only the intuition can apprehend the psychological modus vivendi. The intuitive comprehension of Time without Space is thus the key for a psychology that aims at establishing a close contact with the subjective interiority. In this context Alberto Caeiro might be regarded as a poet who is also contrary to the fragmental and spatial thinking