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I began by asking him what Husserl had meant at the end of my last visit when he suggested that I ask him questions concerning the phenomenological reduction, and he added that he had become aware since the publication of the Ideen of many difficulties in the reduction. To which Fink: The phenomenological reduction is no longer regarded by Husserl as merely a step which frees the transcendental field for investigation. Its significance as making possible a naïve sort of act-analysis, such as one has in the Ideen, remains; but phenomenological investigation cannot, after the phenomenological reduction, proceed as if in a homogeneous field, but must continually exercise further reductions such as those involved in the problems of “genesis”. The phenomenological field is not “ there” at all, but must first be created. Thus the phenomenological reduction is creative, but of something which bears a necessary relation to that which is “there”.
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Cairns, D. (1976). Conversation with Fink, 17/8/31. In: Conversations with Husserl and Fink. Phaenomenologica, vol 66. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6890-6_9
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