/lit/ - Literature

>>9249663
This.

One other way to develop empathy is by understanding how myths work. Try to imagine that purest form of ideology, the three-act Hollywood screenplay. In that form there has to be a protagonist, antagonist, a resolution, *closure.* pay close attention to this last one, the subtle mechanisms that human minds have for wrapping things up in nice bows. People do this in real life as well, often without realizing it. But things are rarely if ever closed up all the way.

You could read Being & Time as well, think about what H was getting at with 'the enframing.' I would say that empathy is basically synonymous with not enframing the other, with giving them a little breathing space to be when they're in your company, allowing them to reveal themselves and all that other wonderful jargon H uses. He was wrong about a few things, but in terms of techne/poeisis I think he nailed it. I tend to think that we all have the same butterflies in our stomachs like that now, so...

But yeah, basically, just listening.