Otto Selz's thinking, writing style, personal dispositions, and fate at the hands of the Nazis attenuated his ideas. His concepts aim to redeem Kant's vision: the schema is not merely a retrospective organization of information. It is also a prospective template for knowledge. To fulfill Selz's vision is to reconstruct his concepts and perspectives on Kant and psychology's nexus with the psychologist as thinker. A reconstructive history of ideas cuts across time and space. This reconstruction focuses Kant's ideas of the schema and the role of analogy. It addresses Selz's contemporaries' ideas, and advances to present reductive views. To go beyond to concepts that navigate between thought and representation, I compare Selz's ideas to Peirce's. Re-schematized, the schema emerges as thinking prospectively by utilizing analogies and abstractions.