Phenomenology on love and auto-affection, Dr. Ellie Anderson

This is so refreshing. What you say touches on fleeting ideas that have crossed my mind but lack the framework to land them to.

Thank you !

Amazing presentation

Do not forget that Sartre became a communist after being in a camp that made him realize his commonality and his shared ness. Your theory is very American. You start from self. That is great. You need grow up and understand that I started from us!

At 9 minutes you discuss affective consciousness, Bauer et al; Are you saying it is not a dualism but a spectrum? Similar to ‘learning’ and ‘teaching’ the concept of ‘me and you’ because a sense of self is already present and can be seen as a prerequisite to learning this?

Do Feurrbach's concepts of Love and The I-Though relationship illuminate the 20th Century phenomenology of Love?

I so much would like to know what an essence is. As a critical rationalist I believe its just a convention of words. It has been 40 years that I try to understand phenomenology

soooo sweeeeeeet

Hi! What would be the adequate books written by Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty related to phenomenology of love? Thank you, in advance!

Cool, but the feeling of love can not be separated from the associated chemicals, like oxytocin.

I love watching your videos. I enjoy learning about philosophy and you explain everything really well.

This is so very interesting. My mind immediately went to "othering" in the dehumanizing/oppressive sense. I feel like men and others in positions as oppressors do no allow themselves to be aware of how the oppressed view them as objects. As if they perhaps limit their understanding of themselves via only allowing in-group (other oppressors) to be a part of their self reflection. When they do not realize themselves through engaging with themselves as an object through the vision of the oppressed, they never achieve critical consciousness and full humanization/self realization. (I'm thinking of this in the sense of the oppressor oppressed dialectic of Paulo Freire)

Thanks so much for your inspiring videos and podcast! I'm learning (and laughing) so much and I love it.

Thank you for yor labour!!! It´s very important to me, to learn English and philosophy! You are a genius. Gracias, desde Argentina.

I wonder if we can look at imbalance of objectivity vs subjectivity generationally. The current generation that is criticized for being too much out there could be applauded for how effective they are at navigating objectivity, but maybe lack subjectivity by balance, leading to do many conversations about anxiety and mental health. And reverse for other generations. This is obviously a generalization, but there is a component where the general is what gives awareness to the individual about what is possible.

Regards from Colombia!

Enjoy the pod. Would be better if you’re not reading the info and just be your charismatic self.

those outlook notifications really raised my blood pressure lol

When one talks about adding Affect to philosophy, and that is an important stance to take, what is the realism structure of that statement? To me one can with a movie see a sort of gold standard of realism. Even see affect upon the Professors face, but what attaches affect to the movie? What is that realism structure? We are familiar with aspects of a movie realism in that image frames succeed each other so a movie records motion realistically. We can’t though know what is realistically recorded of the emotion structure. One clear to me realism of seeing emotion on camera is how feelings have duration that exceeds frame rate. Professor Anderson’s mood extends out from the start as captured by the movie to a knowable finish of the feeling. This is not reflected in the movie technology. Though the audience being familiar with movie realism culture is not especially awake to the lack of realism to the duration of feeling structure.

One has to praise Professor Anderson’s video deliveries as first rate. However, one has to also ask what is the realism we see of her reading the written text she uses to prepare these videos. One might see conversations recorded off some online tool between professor and students that is similarly linear showing of the word content, but the language like use of the video is missing from the milieu of the recording. Can we use the terms like phenomenological being of the recording? The Anderson movie is not like lived words said from the Professor to say students. So there are realism questions to be asked of this movie arising out Existential or Phenomenological uses of the content.

When professor Anderson stares or gazes into the camera like this, what is the realism content of this motion picture? Is that ‘gaze’ objectifying the camera. Making it a thing in itself? Or reading a philosophy book by Sartre is that a gaze into Sartre? Is that a phenomenological being? I might say indirectly I’m gazing at Sartre by reading his words, but the reality is Sartre is dead, and the lived words on the page means nothing in the real experience. We know more about Professor Anderson than of Sartre by seeing Professor speak into the movie camera. But the gaze of Professor Anderson at the camera tells us nothing about the camera as object.

Phenomenology of Love might want to consider mystics also [esp. Teresa of Ávila]. 1. Teresa's love of her beloved 2. Love towards her from those that think of her as their patron saint 3. Love towards her of those that "fall in love" from reading her / Aside: 1 and 2 operate from assumption the love is requited / Aside 2: running Prof's analysis on the case of mystics is interesting [to me anyway]

I love this channel so much. I don’t know what you are talking about, but it sounds really cool.

What an illuminating piece. i'm looking forward to exploring more of your work. in the meantime, here's a question: In what sense is the individuation mediated via Devon a revelation for Trey? You mention (in the article) that the circuit is "never closed," the "self-images always have something fictional about them," and, "Yet the self-images are nonetheless revelatory." Where does the fiction end and the revelation begin?

I am an Electrical Engineer and I am reading a ton of French philosophy and phenomenology. I love this. Thank you.

I'd like a whole romance novel written in the "Devon and Trey" narrative style.

Thank you. I really really wish I become a philosopher like you in the future

Have you discussed William James??
He's a great influence on pshycology and modern philosophy

Wow! thank you. more amazing stuff.

Would you mind to talk about Jorge Luis BORGES...

Love is a river, constantly flowing. It depends WHEN the 2 lovers look at each other and the current environment of each.

Hey Ellie, love the channel, it's a great way for me to digest larger concepts and sorta keep up with my friend who is a philo major going into post grad.

I'm writing a screenplay right now that incorporates a Phenomenological look at Love thematically, and listening to this got me thinking of how I might incorporate Gary Chapman's "Love Languages" with that.

How I'm understanding this as short as possible: A self-image we may have from reflecting on our relationships will always be partially fictional, but how effective or ineffective the communication of a loved one will cause us to either skew that self image even more from reality or become a very vivid representation of how we think we are perceived by them.

And I imagine, jumping off of how you tied your feminist theory on how mens lack of socialization on verbal expression causes stress to their partners, this ties directly into how Chapman saw common dissatisfaction between partners and how differences in what he called "Love Languages" caused one another to perceive the other as not communicating love, or in many cases, at all.

I'm more so curious if you have any thoughts on that, given that it's kind of considered pop-psych at this point but I did find the overlap interesting.

You are wonderful. The content is well taught, and short, which is good. My complaint is that the sound on almost all of your videos has a spike on the upper end of highs and I feel that the most while listening to you using headphones. Just a thought that might help you out.

Definitionally totalitarians do try to suppress the total, not just parts.

Words only change words. Too much thinking drives humans into insanity. Learn to live ( without the need to understand every thought) before you die.

Dr. Anderson, my heart is yours ❤

'while this is impossible it is revelatory of the self all the same' ?

Dr Ellie is cool.

Your channel has been my first introduction to anything philosophy related and I can't thank you enough for how engaging and easy to understand your explanations are. Seriously can't get enough!

I most enjoy my philosophy with a thick Texan accent. (rip. Rick Roderick)

Ellie please do a video about Levinas! He is such an underrated figure in contemporary discourse, yet everything about him, his ideas and the history that shaped them is exceptional. I'm aware of your familiarity with him, so please help us levinasians do justice to his work. I mean, of course, If you feel like it. Love you guys anyways!

that vocabulary blows mine away like one 1950's super double windy wind

Enlightened self knowledge and awareness of self vs. no self awareness and projecting that onto the world

An Object is an elemental, the mind moves on, objectification of animate things , may be a mistart out of the gate, and our perceptions and interaction dictate the intercourse of man.

One need not look farther than Social Media to understand where love comes from, it comes from the acceptance, approval, validation and love of others. Psychologists do not like this though and will not admit it because it is defeatist and isn't in line with the current state of psychology. We can't ACTUALLY love ourselves because love does not come from our own being but from others.

Hi Ellie, I really love all your videos, but found this hard to listen to. You usually sound so connected. At times it sounded like you were speed reading. You usually communicate perhaps more from a place of affective consciousness. I could not feel your heart today.

Thanks Allie, I like your “hi” and channel (but I’m from CA too :-))

The Ethical Significance of Being an Erotic Object should definitely be known for you, beauty;)

Amazing content. Can I suggest using a de-esser ausio-wise? Much love.

For the male phenomenology see Levinas "Totality and Infinity" appendix B "Phenomenology of Eros."

Ellie I planning to write a book on philosophy essays, mine and other's. Can you please send me some stuff written by you. Could be short about 2 pages or so. Thanks and best of luck.