The Twelve-Day War Experience: A phenomenological-existential reappraisal
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https://doi.org/10.65828/1bfeyc91Keywords:
Existential phenomenology, twelve-day war, world-loss anxiety, temporality, embodiment, ontological shift, spatiality, affective oscillationAbstract
This phenomenological-existential study analyses the twelve-day war experience in Tehran, derived from therapist and client accounts. The crisis violently shifted individuals from the ontic to the ontological, dominating existence with anxiety over 'world-loss'. Analysis through space, mood, embodiment and temporality shows how crisis reorders being, forcing a desperate clinging to the mundane for survival.
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2026-07-01
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The Twelve-Day War Experience: A phenomenological-existential reappraisal. (2026). Existential Analysis: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, 37(2), 394-413. https://doi.org/10.65828/1bfeyc91
