Husserl's Transcendental Phenomenology And The Genesis Of Aesthetic Images Of Poetry

Poetry works transcendentally-phenomenologically, which means that it is constituted as well as presented, but not dichotomically. Because the dichotomic images only passively and mechanically show the present physical things and the rational but not the absent feeling world, it must be transcended into pure consciousness.The traditional Western philosophers from Plato(428-348B.C.E) to G.W.F.Hegel(1770-1831) increasingly advocated the unity of opposites. They thought that subject and object can be outside each other and bridged into one by imagination. They called it dichotomy. Immanual Kant(1724-1804), the representative dichotomist, thought that the aesthetic idea or image means the one chosen from among many perceptual things within a concept, or the"maximum"which shows the concept to the most extent. Kant could go no further and said that even Homer does not know how an aesthetic idea is constituted in mind. Can an image form only through simple show but not constitution? Can they communicate with each other to fullness and produce?Husserlian transcendental phenomenology, as the soul of poetry, breaks up the state of separation and constitutes poetry through intentionality, reduction, intuition and intersubjectivity. Transformations in free fancy of poetry make images the easiest to be cleared and produced. Poetry shows a life-World in which the present and the absent meaning or feeling world become one and the images are produced evidently. Poets manage to make the absent life-World appear through the present. Therefore, poetry works in pure consciousness, intending the absent. Aesthetic images of poetry show as the elements of consciousness as well as its fruits. However, the dichotomic poetry or"maximum"intends and shows the present physical objects and abstract rationality, and would lose vitality. Life-World represents"harmony of man with nature", which comes down in one continuous line through Husserl, Martin Heidegger(1889-1976), Jacques Derrida(1930-2004) and so on. Husserl implied it in his life-World. Heidegger developed Husseerl's theory and said,"man dwells poetically".