Edmund Husserl and the phenomenological reference in reception theory:- Meaning as a phenomenon in the reader's consciousness -

Abstract

This study discusses the basic concepts that frame the actual presence of reception theory in contemporary literary
criticism scene, by invoking the epistemological-phenomenological background on which this theory is based, through the
philosophical statements of Edmund Husserl. Husserl considers meaning as a phenomenon that is formed in the mind of the
reader according to certain conditions that give this meaning its essence, and give the perceiving self a new form in existence, as
if it is born a new from the essence of the reading experience. According to Husserl, this occurs through the self's directedness
towards the subject, wich is the text and its intention, as well as the property of mental commentary, and the process of objects
returning to their essence in (eidetic reduction), and the phenomenological reduction process, which leads to the migration and
transformation of previous beliefs in thought into conscious and awakened beliefs, questioning the essences and existence based
on the literary text in the reader's mind.