Husserl’s Phenomenology of Wishing.

This essay accomplishes two goals. First, contra accepted interpretations, I reveal that the early Husserl executed valuable and extensive investigations of wishes—specifically in manuscripts from <italic>Studies concerning the Structures of Consciousness</italic>. In these manuscripts, Husserl examines two ‘kinds’ of wishes. He describes wish <italic>drives</italic> as feelings of lack. He also dissects wish <italic>intentions</italic> to uncover previously obscured partial acts, including nullifying consciousness, an existentially oriented act, and a preferring. Second, I reveal how these insights from <italic>Studies</italic> partially prefigure Husserl’s mature genetic phenomenology of drives and wish intentions. The mature Husserl develops his previous observation, that <italic>drives</italic> are experiences of lack, by describing these drives as having two moments: impulse and movement. Husserl also comes to new insights about wish acts, when he juxtaposes these intentions—as pure feelings that have no power to reach a telos—to drives, which he now conceives of as volitional doings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]