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Theodor Lipps and the shift from “sympathy” to “empathy”

✍ Scribed by Gustav Jahoda

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
93 KB
Volume
41
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5061

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✦ Synopsis

In the course of extensive philosophical debates on aesthetics in nineteenth-century Germany, Robert Vischer introduced the concept of Einfühlung in relation to art. Theodor Lipps subsequently extended it from art to visual illusions and interpersonal understanding. While Lipps had regarded Einfühlung as basically similar to the old notion of sympathy, Edward Titchener in America believed it had a different meaning. Hence, he coined the term empathy as its translation. This term came to be increasingly widely adopted, first in psychology and then more generally. But the lack of agreement about the supposed difference between these concepts suggests that Lipps had probably been right.

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