Presentification. Aspects of the Aesthetical (Consciousness)

Abstract

Husserl uses the term Vergegenwärtigung throughout almost his whole life. This term was translated as presentification (présentification) by Sartre and Ricœur. In the works of Edmund Husserl, presentification appears in three different contexts: in connection with time, otherness, fantasy and picture. The importance of presentification is also in this threefold usage. In fact, this concept makes it possible to thematize temporality, alterity and picturality at the same time. But for Husserl the presentification is definitely not a re-presentation. Before presentification there is no present. This kind of reappearance was not anticipated by the present. So, what is common to temporality, alterity, fantasy and picture-consciousness? We suppose that it is non-representative, non-present-based appearance, presentification itself.