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Rendezvous with fear

In this paper, the authors study the possibility that in some situations of human interaction with the unknown, there is a fundamental emotion that can have two more or less mixed aspects, namely hope and fear. The following idea is hinted at by Wittgenstein and it is further elaborated in Ridley Scott’s film “Alien”. Based on that illustration one can claim that there must be a certain aspect change between hope and fear in many daily situations in which humans interact with something relatively unknown. Elaboration of this idea is supported by some Wittgenstein’s passages and comments, mainly from RPP and PPO, and by some more detailed analyses and commentaries on the emotional structure of “Alien”.

Wittgenstein ; Alien ; fear ; hope ; surprise ; basic emotions ; mixture of basic emotions

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