Key Arguments

• In the stenographic insertion, Husserl introduces the theme ‘Time-constitution, immanency and transcendency. Single subjectivity — intersubjectivity.’, indicating that time, immanence, and transcendence have to be treated first at the level of single subjectivity and then at that of intersubjectivity.
• He characterizes ‘1. Single subjectivity: primordial immanency, the primordial stream of consciousness, primordial facultative modification of the stream of consciousness — the course of actual experience with its de facto “I move” and with the facultative possibilities of the Ego’s moving — primordial, with the sense of an abstraction from acceptances of being that involve empathy.’ This defines a purely primordial stratum in which the ego’s kinaesthetic life is considered apart from any already constituted other subjects.
• He then contrasts this with a broader immanence that includes empathy: ‘2. The empathies lie within the immanency that belongs to me as “ego” of the reduction. These non-originary presentations function together with all the others in the constitution of the “world”.’ Empathic presentations, though non-originary, are still immanent to my transcendental life and play a constitutive role in world-constitution.
• By calling empathic acts ‘non-originary presentations’ that ‘function together with all the others in the constitution of the “world”’, Husserl signals that even at the level of my own immanence the constitution of the world already involves a correlation between originary self-experience and mediating experiences of others.

Source Quotes

Strasser’s transliteration may be tendered as follows. Time-constitution, immanency and transcendency. Single subjectivity — intersubjectivity. 1.

Single subjectivity — intersubjectivity. 1. Single subjectivity: primordial immanency, the primordial stream of consciousness, primordial facultative modification of the stream of consciousness — the course of actual experience with its de facto “I move” and with the facultative possibilities of the Ego’s moving — primordial, with the sense of an abstraction from acceptances of being that involve empathy. 2.

Single subjectivity: primordial immanency, the primordial stream of consciousness, primordial facultative modification of the stream of consciousness — the course of actual experience with its de facto “I move” and with the facultative possibilities of the Ego’s moving — primordial, with the sense of an abstraction from acceptances of being that involve empathy. 2. The empathies lie within the immanency that belongs to me as “ego” of the reduction. These non-originary presentations function together with all the others in the constitution of the “world”. Therefore what is set forth in Meditations I–III must have made implicit use also of empathy — only it was not mentioned.

Key Concepts

• Time-constitution, immanency and transcendency. Single subjectivity — intersubjectivity.
• 1. Single subjectivity: primordial immanency, the primordial stream of consciousness, primordial facultative modification of the stream of consciousness — the course of actual experience with its de facto “I move” and with the facultative possibilities of the Ego’s moving — primordial, with the sense of an abstraction from acceptances of being that involve empathy.
• 2. The empathies lie within the immanency that belongs to me as “ego” of the reduction. These non-originary presentations function together with all the others in the constitution of the “world”.

Context

Stenographic note inserted at the end of §29, where Husserl sketches how analyses of time-constitution and immanence must initially abstract from empathy and then reinclude empathic presentations as immanent, non-originary contributions to the constitution of the world.