![]() Like empathy, to feel it is enough.Īdmitting that you are feeling in the first place though is not always easy. ![]() In the end, it leaves you with the emotion and in this she is saying that there is no justification that emotions need. Throughout it, Jamison continuously asks what makes this bad. A retelling events from childhood is interrupted by a discussion of the similarities between sentimentality and artificial sweeteners. In Defence of Saccharin(e) is a chapter that falls in and out of sentimentality. Empathy is what you feel as you read each essay. Empathy is going to a medical conference and seeing people who lives are ruled by illness. Empathy is watching a documentary about boys wrongly convicted of murder. ![]() Empathy is training to be a doctor, diagnosing a fake illness in a scripted scene. ![]() She has constructed a metaphor for empathy in each chapter. How do you explain what empathy is? What empathy feels like? Somehow Leslie Jamison has done just that. “Metaphors are tiny saviours leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging “Say it new! Say it new!” It’s hard for emotion to feel flat if its language is suitably novel, to feel excessive if its rendering is suitably opaque.” ― Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays ![]()
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