Transpathy
Transpathy
(Lat. trans, across + pathos, feeling) As distinct from sympathy is feeling engendered by ‘contigion’. In sympathy the function of ‘after-experiencing’ is so interwoven with true sympathy that in experienced separation of the two never occurs. In the case of transpathy, the two functions are distinctly separated from eich other in experience. Transpathy takes place between emotional states, presupposes no knowledge of the other’s joy or sorrow. One detects afterwards that an emotion which one finds in oneself derives from ‘contagion’, which took place in an earlier gathering. See Sympathy. — H.H.