By then, someone will have created a way to transpose external feelings into feelings.
But parents worry, don't they?" Sometimes it seemed as if the entire town of Patterson were a network of external pain receptors, feeling for the hazards that might injure the girl who feels no pain.
"I don't know if this is a distinction that needs to be made," she told me, "but I was responding to my external environment and feeling like I had no control.
The definition is well suited as an introduction to this study, for it has three elements that are critical to it, namely an external object, a feeling directed to the attainment of satisfaction from that object, and an internal (subjective) reward or satisfaction.
Seligman (2002) believes that among external circumstances influencing feelings of happiness are income, marital status, social life, positive emotions, age, and health.
His theory is both elaborate and counterintuitive, involving a chain reaction that begins when an emotion (defined as a change in body state in response to an external stimulus) triggers a feeling (the representation of that change in the brain as well as specific mental images).
In "The Non-Objective World," a manifesto from 1926, he wrote, "The new art of Suprematism, which has produced new forms and form relationships by giving external expression to pictorial feeling, will become a new architecture: it will transfer these forms from the surface of canvas to space".
In addition he provides phenomenologically sensitive descriptions of the type of experience we have when we are "feeling an external body".
When we think of what we want in life, we tend to focus on achievement -- getting the grade, making the money, getting the guy, buying the house -- when what we really want is the feeling that external reward would create in us: satisfaction, freedom, love or security.
Depersonalisation symptoms are absent only in autoscopic hallucination and can be described as a reduced awareness of own body in negative heautoscopy, as a sense of empty body in inner heautoscopy, as a subjective meaningfulness and enhanced reality of the experience in out of body experience and as a sense of familiarity with the external presence in the feeling of a presence.
