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Suffering and Ipseity in Michel Henry


Abstract

The double expansion that Husserl’s phenomenology imposed on subjectiveexperience posed, among other difficulties, a new and particularly difficultproblem for Husserl; that of the trans-temporal identity of the transcendentalsubject, the “ego.” This problem involves also, and still more fundamentally, thequestion of the ontological status of the ego. Beginning with his descriptivepsychologicalunderstanding of consciousness and its intentional acts in the 1901Logical Investigations, Husserl had first identified the subjective ego with theempirical person, and considered it sufficient to determine the flow of actsexperienced by consciousness as a “bundle” (ein Bündel) of subjective phenomenadevoid of altogether devoid of any internal principle of unity, except a mere formalsynthesis.