This chapter narrows the focus to the phenomenological view of empathy and sympathy, which seems more attuned to Costello’s emphasis on embodiment, but it also problematizes some of her assumptions, still rooted in an intellectualized view of the sympathetic imagination. The advantage of the phenomenological theories of empathy and sympathy is that they reject any projection/imitation presuppositions and understand empathy/sympathy as the direct and pre-reflexive experience of another’s subjectivity. Although the classic phenomenologists and the contemporary proponents of the Direct Perception Theory are hardly interested in nonhuman animals, their theories have been adopted by some trends in animal ethics. The chapter closes with Costello’s brief criticism of Heidegger (traditionally a critic of empathy) in one of her new short stories (2023).