At the origins of the German debate on Einfühlung lie not only visual, optical and spatial issues (Vischer, Lipps) but exquisitely literary phenomena. In particular one genre, that of tragedy, and two categories, namely das Tragische and die Tragik, are the subject of extensive reflection. There is thus a literary birth of the theory of Einfühlung, and if today we have extraordinary analyses of empathy in the novel (Keen) the question remains why the theme of the tragic and tragedy, which lies at the center of the early interests of the psychology of Einfühlung (Lipps, Volkelt, Groos), has almost disappeared from the horizon of the study of empathy, while it is obviously essential to understanding the debate on “negative” and “mixed” emotions.
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