ABSTRACT

Lived emotion is the actual emotional experiences that are felt, embodied, interpreted, and expressed by the person. The essence of emotionality lies in its inner moral meanings to the self of the person. The meaning of emotionality lies in what is revealed to individuals through the feeling of their feelings. The phrase emotion's body borrows directly from David Sudnow's Talk's Body. Emotion's body has associated with it certain recurring intentional value themes that refer to conditions and forms of emotionality, such as being attractive, not being in pain, or being in control of one's emotions. Emotion's body, considered as a totality, is a moving, feeling complex of sensible feelings, feelings of the lived body, intentional value feelings, and feelings of the self and moral person. Lived feelings express a particular value content or meaning found in the world by the person.