Abstract
Regardless of others' understanding, we can have any ‘emotion’ or ‘feeling’ about others and also make use of them to construct some relationship between others, which could not be supported by people outside of the relationship. Of course, this relationship is not based on direct communication as someone says something and the other understands it. But it is an immediate and intimate one based on ‘emotions’ or ‘feelings’. In this paper, love is picked up to show the function of ‘emotions’ or ‘feelings’ and the structure of immediate relationships. In the course of investigation, Speech-Acts Theory by J.R. Searle and love as a generalized symbolic medium by N. Luhmann will be referred to.
