Intentional Structure and Free Phantasy in Edmund Husserl's Ideas I

This paper carries out a critical analysis of the methodological role played by free phantasy in the first book of Ideas. Putting forward the close relation between consciousness modalization and the noctic-noematic structure of intentional acts, the aim is to demonstrate the complementarity between the methods of eidetic and phenomenological reductions for Husserl's project of a phenomenological critique of knowledge. By this, it will be stressed the decisive impact that the phantasy performance had for the transcendental turn of phenomenology.