cognitive empathy…may be defined as an active attempt by one person to get “inside” another’s mind or to approach someone men- tally through a deliberate intellectual effort. In other words, cognitive empathy describes a situation in which the subject is an active agent deliberately attempting to step outside the self and “into” the other’s experiences

A wound marks the threshold between interior and exterior; it marks where a body has been penetrated —Larissa Pham, “Pop Songs”