Emotion as Lived Experience*

The place of the lived body in emotional experience is examined. Four layers, or levels, of lived-emotion are identified: (1) sensible feelings, (2) feelings of the lived body, (3) intentional value-feelings, (4) feelings of the self or the moral person. An account of lived emotionality given by James Joyce is analyzed. The importance of a phenomenological and interactionist view of self, emotionality and social experience is indicated.