Özet:

In most studies on emotions, researchers have proposed that there are some primary emotions. The number of these basic emotions is said to be at least four and they include happiness, anger, sadness, and fear. All other emotions build on these four primary emotions. In this study, first, by employing a phenomenological framework, time, space, body, and intersubjective dimensions which are part and parcel of the self’s existence will be discussed, and then how the emotion of fear is experienced and felt in these four dimensions will be analyzed. Furthermore, what role these dimensions have in the formation of fear and what changes they undergo during the experience of fear will be examined with reference to two incidents that befall Stephen in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.