ZARYS FENOMENOLOGICZNEJ ANALIZY TĘSKNOTY
Abstract
AN OUTLINE OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LONGING
In this article I attempt to consider the structure of specific acts of
desire, which are defined as ‘longing’. For that purpose, I used
descriptive-analytical method of phenomenology to present the most
essential aspects of this feeling. Longing, as an emotion, is a kind of
insight into the sphere of values, through which the object of longing
appears as a kind of good, which nature isn’t described in utilitarian or
hedonistic categories. Object of longing seems to be something above
those two kinds of values. Much attention was devoted to the issue of
constitution of object of longing as something negative, absent for
person, who misses someone or something. At the end of the paper, I
make some remarks about ‘privacy’ and intimacy of longing and I
consider longing as a kind of mood, through which some acts of
awareness are becoming possible.