An Exploration of Mood and Learning

Abstract

Mood, considered as the over-all meaning of an individual's existence at a particular time, is related to psychotherapeutic training and to learning in general. Mood involves the direct reference of the experiencing person to the world. This direct reference contrasts to the objective view of experience in which the world is given in a mediated manner to the individual. Certain essential aspects of mood itself, the psychotherapeutic mood, and the mood of learning are developed.