Situated Anxiety: A Phenomenology of Agoraphobia

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

Anxiety is sometimes thought of as either a state of mind, lacking a thick spatial depth, or otherwise conceived as something that individuals undergo alone. Such presuppositions are evident both conceptually and clinically. In this paper, I present a contrasting account of anxiety as being a situated affect. I develop this claim by pursuing a phenomenological analysis of agoraphobia. Far from a disembodied, displaced, and solitary state of mind, agoraphobic is revealed as being thickly mediated by bodily, spatial, and intersubjective dimensions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSituatedness and Place
Subtitle of host publicationMultidisciplinary Perspectives on the Spatio-temporal Contingency of Human Life
EditorsThomas Hünefeldt, Annika Schlitte
PublisherSpringer Cham
Pages187-201
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-92937-8
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-92936-1, 978-3-030-06551-5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameContributions To Phenomenology
Volume95
ISSN (Print)0923-9545
ISSN (Electronic)2215-1915

Keywords

  • Agoraphobia
  • Anxiety
  • Bodies
  • Intersubjectivity
  • Place
  • Spatiality

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