Appresentation
Appresentation is a term in phenomenology that was mainly coined by Husserl and Schütz . Translated, appresentation means something like making present or present.
This co-presence can on the one hand refer to objects or on the other hand to other consciousness performances. An example to illustrate this:
- If you look at a house from the street, you can only see the front of the house. This one side - whether lavishly or sparsely furnished - gives us an idea of the other, invisible sides of the house. Expectations from the whole house are automatically created (which may or may not be correct). Thus there is a pairing of an appresenting and an appresenting side.
The front of a thing therefore necessarily appresent its back and thus draws a (not necessarily real) image.
In order to fully understand another person, on the one hand empathy is necessary, on the other hand it also requires an associative pairing in which this other person is also visualized as an alter ego . In this context, appresentation means to make the other person aware as co-present and to understand them as the ego of another sphere.
See also
literature
- Ronald Kurt: Image of man and method of social phenomenology , Uvk 2002, ISBN 3896697730 .
- Ferdinand Fellmann: Phenomenology for Introduction, Junius 2006, ISBN 3885066165 .
- Peter Prechtl: Edmund Husserl for the introduction, Junius 2006, 4th edition, ISBN 3-88506-369-7 .
- Alfred Schütz: The meaningful structure of the social world. An Introduction to Understanding Sociology (1932), Uvk, March 2004, ISBN 389669748X .