ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the structures of the emotionally divided self, the emotionality of the divided self, and collapse and repair of the emotionally divided self. The phenomenology of the emotionally divided self requires analysis, for the self of the violent person is emotionally divided. A break with reality and the emotional enactment of inner compulsions are characteristic of the emotionally divided self. Four structures of the emotionally divided self may be distinguished: others, self and body, situations, and temporality. M. Heidegger thesis of the temporality of moods assumes that "moods temporalize themselves—that is, their specific ecstasis belongs to a future and a present in such a way, indeed, that these equiprimordial ecstases are modified by having been". The grounds for true emotional understanding, characteristic of emotional embracement and shared emotionality, are missing in this relationship. The production of negative emotionality places the emotionally divided self in a position of control over the other.
