[Discrepancies and models: in the search for the object of psychology]

There is ample evidence that psychology is in a state of crisis. An important cause of this state of crisis is seen in the paradox of an obviously lacking definition of the subject matter of psychology and a metatheoretic prohibition of subject-related reflections. In the combination of a phenomenological description and a reflexive psychological argumentation a method is outlined that can help psychology in the process of building its subject matter. It is shown that the subject of psychology is not "given", but has to be constituted. Since the psychic is not an "inner reality", but an aspect of our relations to the world, the organism is a much better model of the psychic than the traditional models of psychology.