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This article aims to explore the relationship between neutralization and “as if” consciousness in Husserl’s phenomenology, in particular, from its convergence in intuitions concerning phantasy. Starting from a critique of a line of interpretation that, in its attempt to approach phenomenologically to an “aesthetic consciousness”, homologates the neutrality modification with the Epoché, the article seeks to expose the methodological function that the modalization of belief fulfills in the project of Ideas I, as well as highlighting the growing importance that phantasy and the “as if” consciousness will acquire in the subsequent development of Husserl’s phenomenology.

Seeing and Not Believing: Imagination, Phantasy, and ‘As If’ Consciousness in Husserl’s Phenomenology

Phainomenon

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This article aims to explore the relationship between neutralization and “as if” consciousness in Husserl’s phenomenology, in particular, from its convergence...

Seeing and Not Believing: Imagination, Phantasy, and ‘As If’ Consciousness in Husserl’s Phenomenology

Published Online: Oct 14, 2021

Page range: 69 - 97

Received: Mar 28, 2018

Accepted: May 29, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2018-0004

Keywords
Husserl, Phantasy, Neutralization, Belief, As-If Consciousness

© 2018 Ricardo Mendoza-Canales, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Seeing and Not Believing: Imagination, Phantasy, and ‘As If’ Consciousness in Husserl’s Phenomenology

Published Online: Oct 14, 2021

Page range: 69 - 97

Received: Mar 28, 2018

Accepted: May 29, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2018-0004

KeywordsHusserl, Phantasy, Neutralization, Belief, As-If Consciousness

© 2018 Ricardo Mendoza-Canales, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Husserl, Phantasy, Neutralization, Belief, As-If Consciousness