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<p>I offer an outline of an integrated phenomenological analysis of free fantasy and of fictional worlds. My main concern amounts to stress the scissions entailed in free fantasy and in the consciousness of fictional objects: a scission of the I, and a scission of the experience. Firstly, I offer a somewhat new characterization of the presence of the objects of free fantasy, which disconnects any possible relationship of those objects with a real perception as the leading form of an originally giving consciousness. My leading example is daydream. Secondly, I take the Husserlian analysis of neutralization as a conceptual tool to explain the consciousness of fictional worlds, against a new tendency for interpreting these worlds in light of the concept of “possible world”. The two approaches converge to a twofold characterization of the mode of being of fictions and of the modality of presence of the objects of fantasy.</p>
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I offer an outline of an integrated phenomenological analysis of free fantasy and of fictional worlds. My main concern amounts to stress the scissions entailed in free fantasy and in the consciousness of fictional objects: a scission of the I, and a scission of the experience. Firstly, I offer a somewhat new characterization of the presence of the objects of free fantasy, which disconnects any possible relationship of those objects with a real perception as the leading form of an originally giving consciousness. My leading example is daydream. Secondly, I take the Husserlian analysis of neutralization as a conceptual tool to explain the consciousness of fictional worlds, against a new tendency for interpreting these worlds in light of the concept of “possible world”. The two approaches converge to a twofold characterization of the mode of being of fictions and of the modality of presence of the objects of fantasy.

Phenomenology of Phantasy and Fiction: Some Remarks Towards a Unified Account

School of Arts and Humanities, Centre of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy

Phainomenon

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I offer an outline of an integrated phenomenological analysis of free fantasy and of fictional worlds. My main concern amounts to stress the scissions entailed...

Phenomenology of Phantasy and Fiction: Some Remarks Towards a Unified Account

Published Online: Oct 05, 2021

Page range: 39 - 55

Received: May 26, 2019

Accepted: Jul 11, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2019-0003

Keywords
Husserlian Phenomenology, Phantasy, Fiction, Neutralization

© 2019 Pedro M. S. Alves, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Phenomenology of Phantasy and Fiction: Some Remarks Towards a Unified Account

Published Online: Oct 05, 2021

Page range: 39 - 55

Received: May 26, 2019

Accepted: Jul 11, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2019-0003

KeywordsHusserlian Phenomenology, Phantasy, Fiction, Neutralization

© 2019 Pedro M. S. Alves, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Husserlian Phenomenology, Phantasy, Fiction, Neutralization