Abstract
Although verbally and recognizably there is some small list of common emotions and sentiments, experience is vastly multi-faceted. Innumerable aspects, barely distinct, course through each other and breed others, utterly defying any thin scheme, logical system, or dictionary of kinds. Experience is not just packaged units. The seeming units—experiences, emotions, perceptions, ideas, feelings—which seem to stand still and stable always also involve a myriad flux. We will develop some ways to think about this myriad, hopefully so successfully that the question will then turn about and, if anything, we will be puzzled at how there can be something seemingly stable, recognizable, and universal. How is it, for example, that, with the myriad facets of any moment and the vast variety of what may make us angry in each different situation, when we lose our temper the stomping, hitting, or kicking of anger is always the same? Or is it? We must ask about both the myriad and the stable.
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© 1973 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Gendlin, E.T. (1973). A Phenomenology of Emotions: Anger. In: Carr, D., Casey, E.S. (eds) Explorations in Phenomenology. Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1999-6_18
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