Emotions are performative and goal-oriented while feelings need no intentional object

Evidence

Feelings are constative. For instance, we say: ‘I have a feeling that.’ In contrast, it is impossible to say, ‘I have an affect (or an emotion) that.’ Emotions are not constative, but performative. They refer to actions and deeds. Furthermore, they are intentional and goal-oriented. Feelings, on the other hand, do not necessarily display an intentional structure. Often, the feeling of anxiety has no concrete object. That is what makes anxiety different from fear, which has an intentional structure. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 97

Categorization

• DEFINE: Performative-vs-constative structure distinguishes emotion from feeling; anxiety vs fear illustrates intentionality.
• XREF: connects to: Feeling refers to something objective while emotion and affect are strictly subjective — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 95; Emotional capitalism exploits emotions’ fleeting performativity, which feelings lack — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 98; Emotion gives psychopolitics efficient access below conscious reflection (+5 more)

Related

• Feelings are constative while emotions are performative and intentional (similarity 0.95)
• Emotions are short-lived and exploitable; feelings endure and resist exploitation (similarity 0.83)
• Feeling refers to something objective while emotion and affect are strictly subjective (similarity 0.82)
• Mood is objective and expresses how things are, unlike emotion which deviates (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Mood is objective and expresses how things are, unlike emotion which deviates #complicates (0.78) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 99
• Feelings accumulate from experience while emotions are immediate survival reactions #qualifies (0.75) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 244