Arrive Uninvited

Arrive With The Wrong Gift

Burn Like Ash

Burn Like Chlorine

Burn Like Copper

Burn Like Dust

Burn Like Echo

Burn Like Glass

Burn Like Glue

Burn Like Iron

Burn Like Lint

Burn Like Metal

Burn Like Midnight

Burn Like Mildew

Burn Like Milk

Burn Like Morning

Burn Like Paper

Burn Like Rain

Burn Like Rope

Burn Like Rust

Burn Like Salt

Burn Like Smoke

Burn Like Static

Burn Like Stone

Burn Like Sugar

Burn Like Summer

Burn Like Vinegar

Burn Like Water

Burn Like Wine

Burn Like Winter

Burn Like Wire

Burn Like Wood

Burn Without Flame

Buzz Too Close

Call You Back Too Late

Check You Twice

Come Up In Therapy

Compile In The Background

Cool Too Fast

Escape Containers

Exhale When No One Looks

Feel Crowded

Feel Overdressed

Feel Overexplained

Feel Overlit

Feel Overnight

Feel Overripe

Feel Overthought

Feel Overtime

Feel Overwhelming

Go Quiet When Named

Grow In The Dark

Grow While Standing Still

Heal Wrong

Late On Purpose

Linger Past Due

Name The Thing Too Soon

Overstay The Moment

Peck At The Same Spot

Pull Focus

Ring Like Copper

Ring Like Glue

Ring Like Midnight

Ring Like Mildew

Ring Like Stone

Ring Like Winter

Say Too Little Too Late

Shout In A Whisper

Smell Like Glass

Smell Like Midnight

Smell Like Vinegar

Smell Like Wire

Sound Like Midnight

Sound Like Milk

Sound Like Morning

Sound Like Rust

Sound Like Smoke

Sound Like Summer

Spin The Wrong Way

Spiral Out Of Control

Stick Like Echo

Stick Like Glass

Stick Like Midnight

Stick Like Mildew

Stick Like Vinegar

Stick Like Winter

Tally In The Dark

Taste Like Ash

Taste Like Midnight

Taste Like Salt

Taste Like Water

Taste Like Wood

Tick Without Touching

Tighten In Your Chest

Tip Awkwardly

Weigh Like Chlorine

Weigh Like Copper

Weigh Like Midnight

Weigh Like Paper

Weigh Like Rust

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pick-up line

music

silence

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stress

sleeplessness

job interview

academia

academics

college

student

university

Netflix

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overthinking

coffee

nervousness

shipwreck

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cucumber

human body

airport

travel

modernity

nostalgia

self-hate

social anxiety

is a 'mood', not an emotion, and unlike an emotion, it is not about any particular being, but about beings as a whole and about one's being-in-the-world as a whole.

According to Heidegger, anxiety is a 'mood', not an emotion. In Being and Time, he emphasizes that, although it is not possible to know all beings, we can, nevertheless, feel or sense the totality of beings in a 'mood' ('What is Metaphysics'', in BW: 99). Thus anxiety (Angst, also sometimes translated as 'dread'), unlike an emotion, is not about any particular being (BT: 231)... rather, it is about beings as a whole and about my being-in-the-world as a whole (BT: 233). Consequently, when I am in its grip, it influences my entire outlook on existence and determines the nature of my overall involvement with the world and my responses to entities in general.

is a destroyer of scale, just as suffering makes us lose perspective.

The Sealed Treasure, 1960. . . Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective. (Saul Bellow)

is a fear, but a fear of nothing. Its object, as nothing, imparts to nothing some measure of content.

Kierkegaard has called these moments of anxiety 'nothing.' 'But what effect does nothing produce' It begets anxiety' (BA. 1992, p. 50), he writes and continues: 'The relation of anxiety to its object, to something that is nothing. . . ' (ibid., p. 51). The phrase 'something that is nothing' has dropped the hint that the nothing cannot be understood as a pure nothingness without any content.

The primary difference between Freud and Kierkegaard is that for Freud anxiety is rooted in man's biological nature and can be explained in terms of natural cause and effect processes, whereas for Kierkegaard it is a manifestation of human freedom.

is a mood in which everyday things lose their significance and 'everyday familiarity collapses'. It s the existential mode of the 'not at home'.

In certain MOODS, notably anxiety, everyday things lose their significance: 'Everyday familiarity collapses. Dasein has been individualized, but individualized as being-in-the-world. Being-in enters into the existential 'mode' of the 'not-at-home'' (BT, 189). Dasein is no longer 'at home' in the world, but it has not ceased to be in it... it could not do so without ceasing to be Dasein. (inwood 247)

is a mood that, in its extreme form, discloses things in their full but heretofore concealed strangeness as what is radically other.

This elimination of all the familiar use-meanings connected with things, which Heidegger calls nihilation, 'discloses these beings in their full but heretofore concealed strangeness as what is radically other with respect to the Nothing. In the clear night of the Nothing of anxiety the original openness of beings as such arises: that they are beings and not Nothing' ('What is Metaphysics'', in BW: 103 ).

is a point at which we, in our everyday existence, are forced to face the way in which our experience is organized around our own death.

The mood of anxiety, in particular, is a point at which Dasein is forced to face the way in which its experience is organized around its own death.

is a qualification of dreaming spirit. Awake, the difference between myself and my other is posited... sleeping, it is suspended... dreaming, it is an intimated nothing.

Anxiety is a qualification of dreaming spirit, as such it has its place in psychology. Awake, the difference between myself and my other is posited... sleeping, it is suspended... dreaming, it is an intimated nothing.. . .

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