Early Career and Writings: 1949–1957

In this chapter, we look back at Linschoten’s early academic activities until such time as he became a professor. After a brief introduction (Sect. 5.1), we focus on the period during which he studied psychology, and conducted and published experimental work, even before he had finished his studies (Sect. 5.2). In Sect. 5.3, we follow his contributions to psychology and its relation to phenomenology when he was an assistant and, later, associate professor, working together with Benjamin Kouwer. In Sect. 5.4, we focus on a discussion that Benjamin Kouwer must have started on phenomenology, but that had a peculiar finish, which may show the beginnings of his changed view had been seeded. In Sect. 5.5, we discuss some other writings of this period, some of which were meant for a Catholic audience, others are important because they show that already in the 1950s, his ideas about phenomenology and experimentation in psychology were maturing. Sect. 5.6 concludes the chapter.