ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the reflection process, which Dewey called secondary experience, is the continuation of the action sequence. Accordingly, from a pragmatist perspective, the discourse of targeted intentionality and rationality is to be questioned, because it reproduces the philosophical dichotomy of subject and object, of a purpose-setting consciousness, and the world to be manipulated. According to the pragmatist view, people's action is embedded in situational contexts in which there primarily and usually exists no separation between subject and object, mind and body, inside and outside. Emotional expression behavior contributes to helping stabilize patterns of interaction, but this raises the question of the extent to which the expression is consciously or strategically controlled. Emotions are frequently broken down into their components: such as in the cognitive belief that the snake is dangerous, the desire to escape from it, and the corporeal feeling. Emotions therefore have a judgmental and reflexive character, but the emotional self-reflection is not primarily anchored cognitive-symbolically, but physically.
