Abstract: This paper is a study on the conflict of Phenomenonology with Po-sitivism in the history of Western psychology. The first part of this pa-per discusses the viewpoints of Positivism and Phenomenology, analysingtheir influence upon Structural psychology and Gestalt psychology. Thenit deals with direct influences of Positivism on Bahavioristic psychologyand Phenomenology on Humenistic psychology. Finally this paper evalu-ates the experience and lesson of Chinese psychology from the conflictsof these two kinds of methodology in Western psychology.

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