What comes to mind is a feeling that presents itself as "I disagree with that; that pisses me off; I'm not like that." The content of that thought/feeling is often (always?) false because when there's no feeling of being *like that*, or of *something wrong with being like that*, then there's also no need to feel that one is *not like that*. Is that the feeling of relatedness you're getting at in the context of this section on love?
Is it some more basic sense of me-over-here and you-over-there, or experiencing the situation as having separate participants?
Yes, this was useful. Thank you. I wonder if this sensation is the sort of thing that can survive being noticed or if being noticed it would disappear. Maybe I'll find out later.
What is "the" "feeling of relatedness"?
What comes to mind is a feeling that presents itself as "I disagree with that; that pisses me off; I'm not like that." The content of that thought/feeling is often (always?) false because when there's no feeling of being *like that*, or of *something wrong with being like that*, then there's also no need to feel that one is *not like that*. Is that the feeling of relatedness you're getting at in the context of this section on love?
Is it some more basic sense of me-over-here and you-over-there, or experiencing the situation as having separate participants?
Something else?
As a technical term, “The Feeling of Relatedness” refers to the most subtle sense of subject/object division, as opposed to ‘only interaction’.
It is the most essentialized pre-conceptual sensation of subjectivity.
There is not an ‘I’ relating to ‘other’ or to ‘world’; in a Heideggerian sense, there is only ‘ready-to-handness’, or ‘being absorbed in…’:
objects vanish
the self vanishes
in some sense, there is only the field of engagement
The initial infinitesimal appearance of self and objects where there were none is the ‘feeling of relatedness’.
This is in some sense a pointing-out matter. The words either point-out something that makes sense or do not. Let me know if this was useful.
Yes, this was useful. Thank you. I wonder if this sensation is the sort of thing that can survive being noticed or if being noticed it would disappear. Maybe I'll find out later.