Phantasy, Image Consciousness, and Memory (1898–1925)

Abstract

Presents an English translation of ""Husserliana XXIII"", the volume in the edition of Edmund Husserl's works. The lectures and sketches comprising ""Husserliana XXIII"" come from a period of enormous productivity and pivotal development in Husserl's philosophical life. Phantasy and image consciousness (third principal part of the lectures from the winter semester 1904/05 on "Principal parts of the phenomenology and theory of knowledge") -- The question of phantasy presentation in contrast to perceptual presentation -- Interpretation of phantasy presentation as image presentation (imagination) just like physical image presentation -- Imaging consciousness in its immanent function and in its symbolic function-on the aesthetic contemplation of an image-inquiry into the relationship of the founding apprehension in phantasy consciousness and in image consciousness to perceptual apprehension -- Differences between ordinary image-presentation and phantasy presentation -- Phantasy appearance in contrast to physical image appearance and perceptual appearance -- Exposition recapitulating the view that phantasy presentation can be interpreted as imaging presentation -- Attempt at establishing an essential distinction between phantasy presentation and imaging presentation -- Results, and preview of the analyses of time consciousness -- The question of the phenomenological distinction between sensation and phantasm and the question of the relationship between perception and phantasy.