Having more phenomenological and anthropological contours than ontological,
this article tries to draw the guidelines of a phenomenology of emotions based on
Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception. In a perspective sometimes very close
to Sartre, we wish to stress, in the emotional experience, the conditions of facticity and transcendence in Merleau-Ponty’s thought. If the subject lets itself be seduced by the affective category of the environment, it is only the subject as a phenomenal body that possesses the conditions through which it is able to retrieve itself.