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<p>What are fictional emotions and what has phenomenology to say about them? This paper argues that the experience of fictional emotions entails a splitting of the subject between a real and a phantasy ego. The real ego is the ego that imagines something; the phantasy ego is the ego that is necessarily co-posited by any experience of imagining something. Fictional emotions are phantasy emotions of the phantasy ego. The intentional structure of fictional emotions, the nature of their fictional object, as well as the process of constituting the phantasy ego in representificational acts of consciousness are further elaborated to provide the groundwork for a phenomenological analysis of fictional emotions.</p>
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What are fictional emotions and what has phenomenology to say about them? This paper argues that the experience of fictional emotions entails a splitting of the subject between a real and a phantasy ego. The real ego is the ego that imagines something; the phantasy ego is the ego that is necessarily co-posited by any experience of imagining something. Fictional emotions are phantasy emotions of the phantasy ego. The intentional structure of fictional emotions, the nature of their fictional object, as well as the process of constituting the phantasy ego in representificational acts of consciousness are further elaborated to provide the groundwork for a phenomenological analysis of fictional emotions.

Towards a Phenomenological Analysis of Fictional Emotions

Phainomenon

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What are fictional emotions and what has phenomenology to say about them? This paper argues that the experience of fictional emotions entails a splitting of...

Towards a Phenomenological Analysis of Fictional Emotions

Published Online: Oct 05, 2021

Page range: 57 - 81

Received: Mar 23, 2019

Accepted: Jul 19, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2019-0004

Keywords
Imagination, Emotion, Phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, Ego-Splitting

© 2019 Marco Cavallaro, published by Sciendo

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

Towards a Phenomenological Analysis of Fictional Emotions

Published Online: Oct 05, 2021

Page range: 57 - 81

Received: Mar 23, 2019

Accepted: Jul 19, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2019-0004

KeywordsImagination, Emotion, Phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, Ego-Splitting

© 2019 Marco Cavallaro, published by Sciendo

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

Keywords
Imagination, Emotion, Phenomenology, Edmund Husserl, Ego-Splitting