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Surprise at the Intersection of Phenomenology and LinguisticsEdited by Natalie Depraz and Agnès Celle
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series 11] 2019
► pp. 24–42
Chapter 2. Shock, twofold dynamics, cascade
Three signatures of surprise. The micro-time of the surprised body
Natalie Depraz | Université de Rouen Normandy, Archives-Husserl, Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure.
Surprise is commonly seen as a sudden instantaneous, intensively emotional, exclamative interjective, bodily startling “shock”. I would like to show that it would better be also understood as a processual dynamics, which presupposes a deep transformation of its commonly taken-for-granted experiential meaning as a shock. Such a dynamics unfolds along multifarious vectors, exemplarily time, emotion, cognition, language, inter-subjectivity and body. Since I already focused elsewhere on four of these vectors of the dynamics of surprise, namely time, emotion, cognition and language, I will deal here with the bodily time of surprise and reveal how the latter cannot be reduced to startle but refers to a multifaceted generative embodied process.
Keywords: body, surprise, shock, twofold dynamics, microphenomenology, time, cascade
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