Phenomenology of Emotions

A collection of scholarly perspectives on emotion, embodiment, and vulnerability through the lens of phenomenology.

This book offers an expert analysis of emotions, bridging phenomenology, mental disorders, and psychotherapeutic healing. Examining embodiment and existential vulnerability, it reveals the role of emotions in our self-understanding and practical life. Essential reading for philosophers, psychologists, and clinicians interested in emotion.This volume explores the interrelations between emotions, embodiment, and vulnerability through a phenomenological perspective. Scholars of philosophy, psychology, and psychiatry investigate how the fragilities of embodied existence shape emotions, how these vulnerabilities become visible in psychopathological conditions, and how they figure in therapeutic contexts. A central theme is that emotions can be understood as experiences lived through and enacted – not merely endured – showing them as fundamental to human selfhood and agency. Integrating phenomenological analyses with clinical insights, the text illuminates fluid boundaries between ordinary and pathological emotional experience. Across twenty-one chapters contributed by established researchers, this book builds a framework for understanding how emotions reveal and modulate human vulnerability.