ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes Husserl’s account of acts of imagining. After discussing why Husserl’s departs from an understanding on imagination as a faculty of the mind, and rather concentrates on acts of imagining and their specific intentionality, it shows the significance of such an approach for the investigation of different imaginative experiences. In particular, the chapter discusses the difference between image consciousness and phantasy, reconstructing the development of Husserl’s own understanding of such a distinction. It argues that the later analyses allow Husserl to better highlight the nature of both acts, as well as to operate further classifications within the sphere of phantasy, notably by introducing a distinction between pure and bound phantasies. Finally, the subjective participation in imaginative experiences and the characteristic “doubling” of consciousness are thematized.
