Verstimmung

aigreur [ETEM] NT: Verstimmung : aigreur. — Non une humeur amère ou agressive, mais une « atonie », une absence de sentiment déterminé. [ETEM]

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State-of-mind, affectedness, discloses Dasein to itself in its facticity or thrownness. But would it not be correct to say that [74] it is certain moods which disclose thrownness, those moods, namely in which my being manifests itself as a burden? That is to say, bad mood (Verstimmung) discloses the burdensome character of existence, but not good mood, in the sense of being in good spirits, joyous, elated and so on. In a way which is characteristic of his thinking Heidegger interprets such good moods as a turning away from the burdensome character of being. Such turning away involves the disclosure of what it is a turning away from. Turning away is not like a mere failure to recognise. [Gorner:73-74]