Phenomenological empathy
Scenarios and possibilities
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This article aims to produce a study on empathy from a phenomenological perspective. Therefore, a distinction will be made between the various meanings and uses of the word empathy in contemporaneity. Afterward, the various theories and explanatory models of empathy will be analyzed based on the question of “how” human consciousness accesses the external world. Among the explanatory models explored, we can highlight the Theory – Theory (TT), the Simulation Theory (ST), the Integrated Theory (IT), the graded empathy hypothesis (GEH), the Reintegrated Theory (RT) model. Once this is done, the phenomenological proposal for the issue of empathy will be explored more thoroughly. Finally, it will seek, in the light of the phenomenological perspective, to advance in the reflection on empathy based on three ideas: resonance, affectation and inter implication, seeking to develop the first steps towards an immanent inter intentionality. As limits and possibilities, it can be noted that it is necessary to explore more the processes of empathy modularization in the process of constitution of the ego, especially in pre-ego life.
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