Abstract The feeling of being alive still constitutes a major blind spot contemporary affective sciences research. mainstream view accepts it as an ‘umbrella notion’ comprising different states, such M. Ratcliffe’s «feelings being», T. Fuchs’s «feeling alive», E.M. Engelen’s « Gefühl des Lebendigseins », etc. In contrast, I argue for account the unique that can be described in several ways. Emp...