Kommentar zum subjektiven Geist, Chapter 20

The Transition to Psychology

Why does it continue? Because reason here exists only as certainty.

Spirit knows that its determinations are also those of the thing — but it has not yet carried this out. What this means in detail — intuiting, representing, thinking; feeling, willing, choosing — still remains to be shown.

Psychology is the carrying-out of this certainty. And the difference from the Phenomenology is thus specifiable: there it concerned the relation to the object, here it concerns the activities in which spirit determines itself.

I.5 Psychology (§§ 440–482)