And it's not only people who are the targets of strangers' ardour – restaurants, bars, hotels, books, movies and DVDs are all the objects of feelings so strong that those holding them are embarrassed to reveal their identity.
Otto chides Schleiermacher for making the feeling of absolute dependence a mode of self-consciousness and for leaving the non-subjective object of the feeling uncharacterized (p. 10).
Althea, the latest object of this feeling, is discussed.
But any God who existed would be part of the "world" on Schleiermacher's conception and thus could not be the object of the feeling of absolute dependence.
On this account, the object of the feeling of absolute dependence is what is utterly beyond the world or universe, regarded as everything that exists, and it is the feeling of one's own impotence with respect to that "object".
In the Groundwork Kant identifies the object of the feeling of respect as the moral law and says that respect for the moral law is the only moral motive (Groundwork 4 400).
A beautiful subject can be the object of rueful feelings, because it has aged or decayed or no longer exists.
The object of bad feelings was Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who seemed to be as little given to compromise as de Gaulle was.
The attraction system promotes focused attention, intrusive or obsessive thoughts about the object of desire, feelings of exhilaration, and so on, and is associated primarily with adrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin.
It follows that hallucinations or illusions are possible, in one sense, not about feeling/experiencing pain, but about whether these experiences' correctly representing some tissue damage, that is, the object of perception in feeling pain.
