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In his Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874,1911,1914-1917), Brentano laid the basis for an intentional conception of the act of consciousness. But what exactly consist of the contribution, on several occasions denied, of Psychology to the phenomenological, Husserlian conception of intentionality? Following the steps of Brentanian analysis makes clear that his contribution is not on the subjective side of noetic consciousness, as usually said, but on the side of the intentional object, which Brentano gives a renewed meaning to, through the reconsideration of the sensualistic idea of intensity of representation in terms of motivation by the object-pole.