ABSTRACT
Feeling has the overtone of something "within" the individual. A given feeling of love consists of witnessing the twins of a gazelle, to quote the Song of Songs, and of the longing to be close to them. In first-order emotion experience, the experienced meanings are felt as properties of the objects or events perceived. In world-focused grief the world is an empty place; in self-focused grief, part of oneself is missing. Experience of action readiness is assumed to be crucial in emotion experience, in world or in self-focused form. Second-order self-focused awareness strongly varies in analyticity. Second-order awareness considerably adds to first-order experience by awareness, permitting attention change, and reporting and naming. Emotion experience extends the niches that people and animals seek to adapt to, rather than only improving adaptation to the niche that exists. Explicitation yields the main substance of full second-order emotion experience.
