Thus one will take it in part as a gross exaggeration, in part as an absurdity, if I say in advance that the properly understood epoche, with its properly understood universality, totally changes all the notions that one could ever have of the task of psychology, and it reveals everything that was just put forward as obvious to be a naivete which necessarily and forever becomes impossible as soon as the epoche and the reduction are actually, and in their full sense, understood and carried out.