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It is not the case that The jealous husband is attending to the performance
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One can be causally affected by a performance through peripheral awareness without attending to it in any meaningful cognitive sense.
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Jealousy directs attention toward a real person offstage, not toward the theatrical representation being performed.
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Wollheim's distinction between seeing-in and seeing-as shows that emotional response can track real-world referents rather than representational content.
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The husband's affect is parasitic on a belief about actual infidelity, which bypasses rather than engages the aesthetic object as such.
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The jealous husband is made suspicious by the action of the play as presented by the performance
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Being affected by the action of the play as presented requires attending to the performance
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