Abstract
We generally understand that the ability to appreciate feelings of another person through a subjective identification
with them as "empathy." However, the concept of empathy is not what we actually experience as we’re deeply
committed to others. Based on this recognition as one living person, this study inductively aims to grasp the actual
feelings developed among people as "being with another person," referring to the author’s own life-world experiences
in details and to analyze the actualities of "being with another person." As a result, the following two experiential
aspects have been clarified: for "being with another person," 1) we can live in the inter-subjective world based on a
perceptual body and 2) we can be in an inter-subjective relationship, overcoming being a private entity. These
considerations lead to the findings that superficially understanding another person in the scene of psychological support
is inadequate and that we really need to share deeply connected relationships one another.
