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Situated Anxiety: A Phenomenology of Agoraphobia

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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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  1. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Dylan Trigg

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  1. Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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  2. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

    Annika Schlitte

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Trigg, D. (2018). Situated Anxiety: A Phenomenology of Agoraphobia. In: Hünefeldt, T., Schlitte, A. (eds) Situatedness and Place. Contributions To Phenomenology, vol 95. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92937-8_11

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