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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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146548

Abstract

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.

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Schlitte Annika, Hünefeldt Thomas (2018) Situatedness and place: multidisciplinary perspectives on the spatio-temporal contingency of human life. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 187-201

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92937-8_11

Full citation:

Trigg Dylan (2018) „Situated anxiety: a phenomenology of agoraphobia“, In: A. Schlitte & T. Hünefeldt (eds.), Situatedness and place, Dordrecht, Springer, 187–201.