Exploring Affectivity. An Unfinished Conversation with Pamela Sue Anderson

In this chapter, the author immerse himself once again in unfinished conversation by reflecting further on the dynamics of affectivity. Emotions are thus the third dimension in the phenomenology of affectivity that the author seek to sketch out. Anger or disgust implies the action tendency of pushing the other away from oneself, while when the people desire someone they seek to draw the other closer to oneself. From the diverse depictions of how God relates to God's creation and to God's people metaphorical language emerges that portrays divine affectivity. It begins with reorienting human affectivity and asks how the people find Themselves in the world and in relation to others. The author focused especially on the theological imagination that is inspired by the Jewish-Christian traditions by pointing to the metaphors and stories that reflect divine affectivity and compassion as well as to the practices that redirect impulses that emerge from being affected by an other.