ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the dwelling places of emotionality. Emotionality, the process of being emotional, locates the person in the world of social interaction. Self-feelings are sequences of lived emotionality, often involving the feeling and experiencing of more than one specific, named emotion. Emotionality radiates through the lived body of the person. The study of emotionality requires a conception of the human body as a structure of ongoing lived experience. The self of the person stands in the center of the emotions that are experienced. Self-feelings constitute the inner essence, or core, of emotionality. The inquiry assumes that all experiences of emotionality involve positive and negative situational experiences that may or may not endure in the relational worlds of the person. It is also assumed that all emotional experiences involve reflection, feeling, cognition, and interpretation. Many emotional experiences are purely private; others are public or collective in nature.
