This is why phenomenology even though it was first suggested by way of anti psychologism, or, rather, precisely in so far as, in opposition to anti psychologism, it revived the problem of the a priori and the transcendental motif has never been able to exorcize its insidious kinship, its simultaneously promising and threatening proximity, to empirical analyses of man; it is also why, though it was inaugurated by a reduction to the cogito, it has always been led to questions, to the question of ontology.