ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an Husserlian grid to interpret the phenomenon of jealousy and provide a description of the layers that constitute this lived-experience. Clinical psychology seems to answer the question about the structure of jealousy in a more systematic manner than philosophy. Hence, within the realm of activity a given number of synthetic layers are constituted in a graspable meaning. The practical intention is a phrenetic act through which the subject decides to move toward a self-constituting act in an act of recognizing the interconnection between passive syntheses and the ego’s own activity. Since emotions belong to the larger category of feeling-acts, they are comprised of an affective and a presentational moment. The affective moment is the most primitive layer belonging to practical and passive intentions. Unfortunately, since jealousy is an instinct first, any meaning or value can provide a fulfilling answer that placates the jealous storm.
