Films and Existential Feelings

Projections ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Eder
Keyword(s):  
Existential Feelings

scholarly journals Health and Illness as Enacted Phenomena

Topoi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrik Svenaeus
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Existential Feelings ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Chronic Anxiety ◽  
Phenomenological View ◽  
Life Projects

AbstractIn this paper I explore health and illness through the lens of enactivism, which is understood and developed as a bodily-based worldly-engaged phenomenology. Various health theories – biomedical, ability-based, biopsychosocial – are introduced and scrutinized from the point of view of enactivism and phenomenology. Health is ultimately argued to consist in a central world-disclosing aspect of what is called existential feelings, experienced by way of transparency and ease in carrying out important life projects. Health, in such a phenomenologically enacted understanding, is an important and in many cases necessary part of leading a good life. Illness, on the other hand, by such a phenomenological view, consist in finding oneself at mercy of unhomelike existential feelings, such as bodily pains, nausea, extreme unmotivated tiredness, depression, chronic anxiety and delusion, which make it harder and, in some cases, impossible to flourish. In illness suffering the lived body hurts, resists, or, in other ways, alienates the activities of the ill person.

Existential feelings

2008 ◽  
pp. 41-76
Author(s):  
Matthew Ratcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Existential Feelings

scholarly journals Lyrics and Existence in Scientific and Poetic Knowledge

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 56-74
Author(s):  
Julia S. Morkina
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Cognitive Content ◽  
Cognitive Aspect ◽  
Cognitive Component ◽  
Existential Feelings ◽  
Emotional Environment ◽  
Holistic Perception ◽  
The Subject

In the article, science and poetry, scientific and poetic creativity are considered as part of human culture. It is shown that both scientific and poetic activities are loaded with cognitive content. At the same time, if the thesis about the cognitive orientation of science is not in doubt, then the connection of art with knowledge is not so obvious and needs explication. Poetry is considered as cultural phenomena that are directly related to knowledge, to the cognitive component of human activity. Poetry and science can be compared on the basis of their direct relationship to the emotional environment of human existence and the existential feelings experienced by the subject of knowledge. In the article, we evaluate the concept of intellectual emotion, which was introduced by members of the Kharkiv linguistic school for the analysis of human cognitive activity in culture. For analysis of existential feelings, we review the conditions of self-awareness of both scientific and poetic activity. Special attention is paid to the analysis of apperception of the complex poetic contents of the consciousness of both poet and reader-interpreter as his co-author. Considering the views of E. Husserl and A. Bergson as well as the views of members of the Kharkiv linguistic school, we discuss the theoretical and cognitive aspect of poetic creativity. In the article, we conclude about a person’s holistic perception of knowledge, which is not only appercepted by the human mind but also affects his emotional sphere. We have shown that there are intellectual emotions involved in the consciousness of a person who solves a complex scientific or philosophical problem as well as perceiving poetry that has an cognitive aspect. We also concluded that existential emotions and feelings play a significant role in cognition. Therefore, knowledge can be not only scientific or philosophical but also poetic, and in the latter form of knowledge the existential aspects are more clearly manifested.

The Phenomenology of Affectivity

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Special Section ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Detailed Account ◽  
Current Opinion ◽  
Existential Feelings ◽  
Phenomenological Account ◽  
Body Self

In contrast to current opinion which locates mental states including moods and emotions within our head, phenomenology regards affects as encompassing phenomena that connect body, self, and world. Based on the phenomenological approach, the chapter gives a detailed account of: (a) the feeling of being alive or vitality, (b) existential feelings, (c) affective atmospheres, (d) moods, and (e) emotions, emphasizing the embodied as well as intersubjective dimensions of affectivity. Thus, emotions are regarded as resulting from the circular interaction between affective affordances in the environment and the subject's bodily resonance, be it in the form of sensations, postures, gestures, or movement tendencies. A special section deals with the phenomena of interaffectivity, understood as the mutual empathic coupling of two embodied subjects. Psychopathological examples complete the phenomenological account of affectivity.

Bridging the gap between social and existential-mystical interpretations of Schleiermacher's ‘feeling’

2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
GORAZD ANDREJČ
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Social Understanding ◽  
Existential Feelings ◽  
Religious Feeling ◽  
Perception Model ◽  
Matthew Ratcliffe

AbstractThe article engages with two contemporary understandings of Schleiermacher's notion of feeling which are in important aspects in conflict: a social understanding (Kevin W. Hector and Christine Helmer) and an existential-mystical understanding (Thandeka). Using the phenomenological category of ‘existential feelings’ drawn from the work of Matthew Ratcliffe, I argue that they can be brought into a coherent overall account that recognizes different aspects of feeling in Schleiermacher's work. I also suggest that such an interpretation of Schleiermacher's concept of religious feeling offers a different and better understanding of the role of feelings in religious experience and belief than the contemporary ‘perception-model’ of religious experience.

scholarly journals Being cared by a family member: the existential feelings of cancer patients

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Wakiuchi ◽  
Anna Maria de Oliveira Salimena ◽  
Catarina Aparecida Sales
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Existential Feelings ◽  
Primary Health

The present article aimed to understand the daily life of cancer patients under palliative care while experiencing home care provided by family members. This was a Heideggerian phenomenological study with 20 patients being treated at the primary health care service of Northeast Paraná, Brazil, between November 2012 and February 2013. Data collection was based on the following research guiding question: What has been your experience of being cared for by your family? Phenomenological analysis was conducted by selecting units of meaning from statements and then selecting ontologic themes, namely: "being alone in the presence of the other" and "finding the foundation of care in love." In conclusion, when based on love and solicitude, home care coupled with palliative practices can give "wings" to those who are suffering and perceive their lives as threatened.

scholarly journals Turturica ‒ the Bird of Existential Predestination in the Short-Story Epic

Philologia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Tatiana Butnaru ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Existential Feelings ◽  
The Face ◽  
Human Destiny ◽  
Inner Contradictions

This article analyzes the ballad Amărâta turturică (The Embittered Dove) in accordance with the symbolism of this bird in folk environments, being presented in different situations and existential hypostases, in accordance with the allegory of human destiny. The image-symbol "embtittered dove" is put at the service of remedying different contradictory states and feelings, depicting the drama of an existential destiny, marked by falls and inner collapses. The ballad about the widowed dove is related to a series of motifs and renders a "synthesis of symbols", tangent to the archetypal significance of some bird topos in our ritual folklore, to foreshadow the culmination of serious existential feelings. As metaphors of predestination, both the hunter and the dove express some tragic entities of human life, outline the meaning of a polarized destiny, marked by inner contradictions, deepen the idea of nostalgic loneliness in the face of irreversible passage.

Veiling Existence With Clothing

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S509-S509
Author(s):  
O. Molina-Andreu ◽  
A. González-Rodríguez ◽  
H. Pelegrina Cetrán
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Severe Depression ◽  
Melancholic Depression ◽  
Moral Failure ◽  
Existential Feelings ◽  
Typus Melancholicus ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Competing Interest

Our aim is to discuss the notion of freedom in severe depression. We will address it considering several phenomenological conceptions of the matter, from Binswanger's nicht können to more recent Ratcliffe's loss of existential feelings and also by clinging to our own clinical experience, in particular a case of melancholic depression in a 67-year-old woman.Our patient suffered a clear melancholic syndrome, with an intense psychomotor inhibition, she felt uncapable of doing anything, spent hours brooding over menial tasks and thought much about dying, because she sensed the world as being devoid of possibilities and the future closed, experiences she considered “not related to disease” but to her own “incurable moral failure”.In order to discuss the notion of freedom in depression, we will particularly focus on one of her psychopathologic phenomena, the empoverishment delusion-like experience of having run-out of proper clothing, which we consider was based on a inhibited “perception” of reality, an unreflective experience of corporeal “not being able”, a loss of the motivational force of intentionality. However, we will argue that this unreflective, pre-given experience showed striking connections to the patient's sub-depressive personhood, a classical Tellenbach's typus melancholicus.An hermeneutical analysis of her existence will be performed using the anthropologic person-centered dialectic model developed by one of the authors, and building on it, we will introduce the distinction between lived experience (Erlebnis) and factual experience (Erfahrung) which we consider it is essential to enlighten the nature of the loss of freedom that severe depression entails.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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