HUSSERL’S PHENOMENOLOGY OF PHANTASY

In section II, we compare and contrast Husserl’s treatments of perception and phantasy, paying special attention to his claim that phantasy is modified perception, with quasi-perceptuality as its essential feature. In section III, quasi-perceptuality is further considered in terms of five of its constitutive aspects also identified by Husserl. Then, in section IV, we offer the first stage of a critical appraisal of Husserl’s theory by placing it in the comparative and critical context of two other influential phenomenologies of imagination, namely those of Jean-Paul Sartre and Edward S. Casey. Finally, in section V, difficulties in Husserl’s theory are noted, together with the suggestion that his notion of the quasi-perceptual should be replaced with that of the “quasi-sensory.”