Concept

Primary empathy

The first and most fundamental level is primary empathy: the involuntary, bodily resonance with the other. The facial and gestural expressions of the other person are replicated at a micromotor level within one’s own organism (motor mimicry).

Excerpted verbatim from the thesis · Ch. 2.3 — 2.3 Inter-corporeality and intersubjectivity: the bodily realisation of the encounter (as the core of the therapeutic relationship)

Related concepts

Extended empathyIterated empathyIntercorporealityLeib / lived body

Occurrences in the text

1. Ch. 2.3 2.3 Inter-corporeality and intersubjectivity: the bodily realisation of the encounter (as the core of the therapeutic relationship)

   The first and most fundamental level is primary empathy: the involuntary, bodily resonance with the other. The facial and gestural expressions of …

2. Ch. 2.3 2.3 Inter-corporeality and intersubjectivity: the bodily realisation of the encounter (as the core of the therapeutic relationship)

   … re that the limit lies, where ’ ’ stands as a disembodied, purely syntactic system: since primary empathy is not possible due to the lack of bodily presence, it remains merely a description from …

3. Ch. 3.1 3.1 Embodied & Emotive: Awareness and bodily self-resonance

   … esonance with the client’s experience. This process of resonance, in the sense of Fuchs’s primary empathy (cf. Chapter 2.3), is profoundly bodily and ultimately aims to empower the client to feel …

4. Ch. 4.1 4.1 The lack of corporeality: echo instead of resonance

   … gnise and name emotions more precisely than the average human. What it lacks, however, is primary empathy: no emotional circle, no intercorporeality, no bodily resonance. This also rules out coun …

5. Ch. 4.1 4.1 The lack of corporeality: echo instead of resonance

   If what the AI presents as empathy is devoid of primary empathy, then the question arises as to what it is actually producing when it appears to respond. …

6. Ch. 6.2 6.2 Recommendations for Action

   … ng, structuring) and frees up the therapist for what only they can do: physical presence, primary empathy, and the ability to tolerate uncertainty. The aim is not to simulate humanity as convinci …