The phenomenology of horror by Dylan Trigg

The article raises the problem of horror as a fundamental characteristic of human existence. Differences between such categories as "fear" and "horror" The analysis of horror in the phenomenology of modern British philosopher Dylan Trigg is presented, the content of the main categories of D. Trigg's phenomenology of horror is revealed. It is about such concepts as "original horror" and "alien subjectivity", special attention is paid to the categories of "non/human" and "flesh". The transformation of the Levinasian notion of «il y a» is also discussed. Trigg analyzes non/human phenomenology. This phenomenology abandons the understanding of description as a guarantor of truth and breaks links with the tradition of phenomenology. Non/human phenomenology is concerned with defining the limits of otherness. At the same time, Trigg asks whether the horrible as non/human can become in the human being itself a phenomenon in the classical sense. It is shown that the "something" as an absent presence (il y a) acquires a carnal and grim being. In addition, Trigg defines the flesh as a mute entity linked to the unconscious; the flesh structures things while maintaining autonomy from the things themselves. A thing defined through the flesh cannot be the thing of our experience. We project the image onto the universe, but it faces the possibility of nonexistence.