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On Experiential Loneliness
Presumably, everyone has, at some point in their lives, felt lonely. Loneliness is, in that particular sense, omnipresent. What it feels like to be...
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Loneliness as Cause
While loneliness has been linked to various mental and physical health problems, the sense in which loneliness is a cause of these conditions has so...
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Loneliness and Mood
Loneliness is commonly conceived of as a topic under the purview of psychology. Empirical research on loneliness utilizes a definition of psychology...
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What is Loneliness? Towards a Receptive Account
In this paper, I pursue two main goals. The first is to raise three objections against Tom Roberts and Joel Krueger’s recent account of loneliness (
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Loneliness and Absence in Psychopathology
Loneliness is a near-universal experience. It is particularly common for individuals with (so-called) psychopathological conditions or disorders. In...
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Alcohol and Loneliness: Their Entanglement and Social Constitution
I develop an externalist perspective and analysis of the relatedness of loneliness and (harmful) alcohol use and the concept of loneliness. I depart...
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A Critique of Existential Loneliness
After a brief review of different definitions and types of loneliness I offer an analysis of the concept of existential loneliness and its...
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Loneliness: From Absence of Other to Disruption of Self
Loneliness is more complex and multi-faceted than it may appear at first glance. Most of the characterizations that we have of loneliness in the...
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Loneliness, Psychological Models, and Self-Estrangement
Loneliness is often described as an experience that is about the absence of other people. But loneliness also has an important self-directed aspect:...
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Loneliness as a Closure of the Affordance Space: The Case of COVID-19 Pandemic
Since the beginning of the current COVID-19 pandemic, specialists were concerned about the potential detrimental effects of physical distancing...
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Loss, Loneliness, and the Question of Subjectivity in Old Age
When a loved one dies, it is common for the bereaved to feel profoundly lonely, disconnected from the world with the sense that they no longer...
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The Rage of Lonely Men: Loneliness and Misogyny in the Online Movement of “Involuntary Celibates” (Incels)
In this article, we investigate the relationship between loneliness and misogyny amongst the online movement of “involuntary celibates” (incels) that...
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Loneliness and Political Narcissism
In terms of loneliness, there are six distinguishable forms of ego separation. First, object-object separation at birth, when the fetus separates...
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The power of connected clinical teams: from loneliness to belonging
BackgroundWe need to preserve the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic in caring for the mental health of clinicians, of shared experiences,...
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The Philosophical Roots of Loneliness and Intimacy Political Narcissism and the Problem of Evil
Ben Lazare Mijuskovic has spent 40 years researching theories of consciousness in relation to human loneliness, using an interdisciplinary and...
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Organic Communities, Atomistic Societies, and Loneliness
The chapter endorses Ferdinand Tönnies’ sociological dichotomy between two forms of human association in his definitions of Gemeinschaft and...
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Loneliness and the Possibility of a “Private Language”
Human nature and the “essence of man” is a History of Ideas topic that has intrigued mankind ever since the dawn of philosophical consciousness, as...
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Absence of other and disruption of self: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the meaning of loneliness in the context of life in a religious community
Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is an idiographic approach to qualitative research. It is widely used in psychologically-informed...
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Time-Consciousness, Personal Identity, and Loneliness
Plato, in the Sophist, presciently foretells of a perennial philosophical Battle between the Gods and the Giants, between the idealists, dualists,...