naa a22 4500 51078416X CHVBK 20180411083256.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s13164-013-0134-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s13164-013-0134-7 Background Emotions, Proximity and Distributed Emotion Regulation [Elektronische Daten] [Somogy Varga, Joel Krueger] In this paper, we draw on developmental findings to provide a nuanced understanding of background emotions, particularly those in depression. We demonstrate how they reflect our basic proximity (feeling of interpersonal connectedness) to others and defend both a phenomenological and a functional claim. First, we substantiate a conjecture by Fonagy & Target (International Journal of Psychoanalysis 88(4):917-937, 2007) that an important phenomenological aspect of depression is the experiential recreation of the infantile loss of proximity to significant others. Second, we argue that proximity has a particular cognitive function that allows individuals to morph into a cohesive dyadic system able to carry out distributed emotion regulation. We show that elevated levels of psychological suffering connected to depressive background emotions may be explained not only in terms of a psychological loss, but also as the felt inability to enter into dyadic regulatory relations with others—an experiential constraint that decreases the individual's ability to adapt to demanding situations. US Government, 2013 Varga Somogy Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, 327 Clement Hall, 38152, Memphis, TN, USA aut Krueger Joel Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 50 Old Elvet, DH1 3HN, Durham, UK aut Review of Philosophy and Psychology Springer Netherlands 4/2(2013-06-01), 271-292 1878-5158 4:2<271 2013 4 13164 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-013-0134-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-013-0134-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Varga Somogy Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, 327 Clement Hall, 38152, Memphis, TN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Krueger Joel Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 50 Old Elvet, DH1 3HN, Durham, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Review of Philosophy and Psychology Springer Netherlands 4/2(2013-06-01), 271-292 1878-5158 4:2<271 2013 4 13164 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer