Abstract
<p>This experience orientated phenomenological exploration of painful emotions and affective vulnerability addresses readers that seek for a better understanding of emotions. It offers an orientation as well for philosophers as for psychotherapists how subjective experience as an embodied subject and the coinage of collective discourses are intertwined. Vulnerability is on the one hand construed from the stance of Phenomenological Psychopathology and authors as Bernhard Waldenfels or Thomas Fuchs and on the other hand from the stance of an ethical-political account of authors like Judith Butler. The methodical maxim of the permeation of living through and thinking through offers vividness and existential relevance.</p>