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Consciência de Imagem e Fantasia. Ego de observação e ego de devaneio

Pedro M. S. Alves

Phainomenon October 1, 2008 DOI: 10.2478/phainomenon-2008-0020 (opens in new tab)

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Key points Argues that figurative consciousness involves a pure observational ego, while “daydream consciousness” is a free construction of the ego’s personal story, constrained by passive and affective life, and proposes new criteria for differentiating non-original presentation acts.

Abstract

Abstract I intend to understand from a phenomenological point of view the relationship between figurative consciousnesses (Bildbewusstsein) and other non-original presentations ( Vergegenwiirtigungen) such as expectations, recollections or fantasies. I centre my analyses in the difference between figurative consciousness, on the one hand, and a modality of fantasy I cal! “daydream consciousness”, on the other. I stress that figurative consciousness implies apure observational ego, whereas day-dream consciousness is a free construction of the ego’s own personal story. The freedom of”day dream consciousness” has, nevertheless, some important constraints. I emphasize the constraints that come from the passive and affective life of the ego. Finally, I propose new criteria for the phenomenological differentiation between the several kinds of acts of non-original presentation.

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