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Francesca Forlè (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele)

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Embodied Affectivity. A Phenomenological Account of the Connection between Affective Phenomena and Bodily Expressions

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Friday, 24 October 2025

10:15am ET, 3:15pm GMT+1, 4:15pm CET

 

Abstract: In this talk, I will deal with the relationship between affective experiences and bodily expressions. In contemporary embodied constitution theories of affectivity (Kruger 2020, Overgaard 2012), bodily expressions are argued to be constitutive parts of affective phenomena. Pro­ponents of these theories often criticize the idea that bodily expressions are merely caused by the expressed affective experiences, but then they have the problem of accommodating the intuition that an affective experience somehow brings about its bodily expressions. Here, I will propose a way out of this issue, maintaining that we can accommodate this intuition without giving up the embodied constitution account of affective experiences. To do so, I will introduce the idea of a motivational connection between affective experiences and their bodily expressions (Husserl 1952, Stein 1917), also showing how such a connection can adequately account for crucial aspects of the phenomenon of bodily expressivity.

  

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