ABSTRACT
When we approach the concrete phenomenology of life in the world with our empty formal definition of the soul as “that which is not what is not soul,” this empty form gets quickly particularized and filled with material qualifications. The description needs at least two qualifications to do justice to our question what soul is. The first qualification concerns the determination of what is meant by “the extra-ordinary,” “the exceptional,” “the incomprehensible,” “the fascinosuw.” The second qualification can hark back to the insight that soul events are objective-subjective. Soul events are intrusive and disturbing. The event of poetry is one example of an event of soul. The inexplicable, fundamentally unpredictable event-character of soul events points to the fact that soul is an extraordinary phenomenon that is not part of the natural course of events and the natural order of things, but intruding into it.
