Alice Togni

Such an ideaIdea of communal life is already to be found in Husserl[aut]Husserl, Edmund, Edith SteinXE „[aut]Stein, Edith’s “Master.” It is well known that SteinXE „[aut]Stein, Edith not only studied and wrote her doctoral dissertation with Husserl[aut]Husserl, Edmund, but she also became his assistant for about a year and a half, with the task of transcribing his stenographic manuscripts and putting them in order. Among the numerous manuscripts which she worked on there are also writings on social ontologyOntologysocial.

Is there intentionality in the inner most level of the soul? Do we have experience of what is unconscious? And, supposing that such an experience might exist, is it possible to perform reduction on it? In this regard the present paper aims to investigate, from a phenomenological point of view, the process of “raising awareness” of what is unconscious, trying to understand if there is a connection between this process and the methodological concept of “reduction” developed by Husserl. Particular attention is paid to the specific type of reduction called “psychological reduction,” which, according to Husserl, provides access to the pure soul, the pure field of psychological experience.