At long last there are hints that contemporary philosophy is beginning to transcend the sharp separation between analytic philosophy and phenomenology, which has so deeply divided twentieth-century Western thought for fifty years. The same conflict pervades psychological theory as well as philosophy, and will, apparently, be overcome only with great difficulty. The hints of emerging dialogue are no more than hints, but in any discussion of meeting points of psychoanalysis and philosophy — especially concerned with philosophy of mind — it seems appropriate to focus further inquiry upon a controversy that seriously divides both disciplines.