But we not only feel with Gretchen, we also feel sympathy and compassion for the maid, we experience what Witasek calls feelings of involvement [Anteilsgefühle]. The status of such sympathy-feelings is perhaps relatively easy to understand: they are genuine feelings which the subject himself genuinely has when he presents to himself a given object. Empathy-feelings, in contrast, are experienced in such a way that they are one's own feelings only in phantasy, though sometimes (where we are dealing with expressive objects having the characteristics of persons) they are presented as corresponding to genuine feelings.
