Abstract: In the history of phenomenology， Husserl took critical reflective psychology as the beginning of his logical research and constructed the classic phenomenological system. Following this path， contemporary memory research may reflect on and criticize the psychology in contemporary memory research as well. However， different from phenomenology， psychologism in the modern memory studies refers to the relationship between psychology and neuroscience， which points to the starting position of psychology in memory research. The transcendence of traditional psychoticism can be realized through two methods-one is the path of natural sciences， reducing psychic phenomena to biological-physical phenomena; the other is the phenomenological approach， criticized by phenomenology. The two approaches both have their limitations-the former may be trapped into the limits of logical positivism while the latter is likely to ignore the new development of natural sciences. The very aim of reflective psychology is to point out that the study of memory in experimental psychology has moved away from the original stipulation of memory， and what needs to be done is to return to memory itself and regard memory as the main stipulation of human existence.

Key words: memory study, psychologism, phenomenological transcendence