The Collected Works of EDITH STEIN ON THE PROBLEM OF EMPATHY

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60 Edith Stein Constitution of the Psycho-Phlsical Indiuidual 6l (c) The Consequence of Sensual Empathy and lts Absence in the Literature on Empathy (Jnder Discussion At the end of the empathic process, i. ,ur case as well as usually', there is a nel' objectification where *,e firrd the "perceivi'rg hand" faci'g us as at the beginning. (1b be sure, it is present the whole rime-in contrast with progressicln in ()uter perceplien-1ynly not in the mode of attention.) Norv, however, it has a neu' dignity because what was presented as empty has found its f ulfillment. 'fha'ks rr> the fact that sensarions essentially belong r an "l," there is already a foreign ,.I" given rogether with thi co.sriruti()n rf' the sensual level of the frrreign physical body (u'hich, strictly speaki'g, we may now no longer cill a ,,physical b

62 Edith Stein as a physical bocly at the same time and because it is given primordially to the other "I," even though non-primordially to rns. J'his orientatir>n takes us a long way in constituting the foreign individual, for by means of it the "l" of the sensing, living boly empathizes the whole fullness of ourer perception in which the spatial world is essenrially constituted. A sensing subject has be_ come one which carries out acts. And so all designations resulting from the immanent essential examination of perceptual con-- sciusness apply to it.83 This also makes statements about the essentially possible various modalities of the accomplishment of acts and about the actuality and non-actuality of perceptual acts 70> and

60 Edith Stein<br />

Constitution <strong>of</strong> the Psycho-Phlsical Indiuidual<br />

6l<br />

(c) <strong>The</strong> Consequence <strong>of</strong> Sensual Empathy and lts Absence in the<br />

Literature on Empathy (Jnder Discussion<br />

At the end <strong>of</strong> the empathic process, i. ,ur case as well as<br />

usually', there is a nel' objectification where *,e firrd the "perceivi'rg<br />

hand" faci'g us as at the beginning. (1b be sure, it is present<br />

the whole rime-in contrast with progressicln in ()uter perceplien-1ynly<br />

not in the mode <strong>of</strong> attention.) Norv, however, it has a<br />

neu' dignity because what was presented as empty has found its<br />

f ulfillment. 'fha'ks rr> the fact that sensarions essentially belong<br />

r an "l," there is already a foreign ,.I" given rogether with thi<br />

co.sriruti()n rf' the sensual level <strong>of</strong> the frrreign physical body<br />

(u'hich, strictly speaki'g, we may now no longer cill a ,,physical<br />

b

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