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Henry held Scheler’s thought for a breakthrough as he revalued affectivity, and the two authors shared a same goal: upgrading the concept of subjectivity against its objectivist and rationalist conceptions. Nevertheless, the divergence between henry’s and Scheler’s philosophical purposes led them to conceive affectivity in quite different ways, and Henry assessed that Scheler had have failed in thinking the ontological nature of it. In “Scheler’s critic by Henry in The Essence of Manifestation”, Thomas Sabourin supports the idea that Henry misjudged the originality of Scheler’s conception of affectivity and subjectivity, and relies on his theory of “stratified affectivity” to reasses Henry’s conception of auto-affection as unequivocal.