Perhaps one of the most controversial aspects of Husserl's phenomenology is his discussion of "essences." Philosophers who attempt to introduce any hint of an abstract entity usually meet with a barrage of criticism accusing them of that unforgiveable sin of "Platonism" (to which Plato himself would not plead guilty!), or of creating an overpopulated Meinongian universe. It is to this problem in Husserl that we now turn.