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VIEIRA LOPES, Marcelo. On the Distinction between Stimmung and Existential Feelings: The Relevance of Psychiatric Cases. Tóp. Sem [online]. 2023, n.49, pp.35-52.  Epub 30-Jan-2023. ISSN 2594-0619.

Recent debates in philosophy, psychology and cognitive sciences have emphasized the role of emotions as constituents of the basic substrate of our affective life. Contemporary phenomenological research, in particular, has addressed the experiential dimension of emotions and their relation to ontological and taxonomic issues. This paper seeks to contribute to that debate by presenting a distinction between Heidegger’s notion of Stimmung and Ratcliffe’s notion of existential feelings. Like Heidegger’s Stimmungen, existential feelings determine how one finds oneself in the world. In some cases, however, the world can seem unreal, distant, permeated by deep despair. My main goal is therefore to clarify the relationship between these descriptive categories by appealing to the description of psychiatric disorders. I present taxonomic, conceptual and methodological reasons for distinguishing Stimmung from existential feelings

Palavras-chave : Existencial feelings; Heidegger; Psychiatry.