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The Psychology of the Emotions

In all affective manifestations there are two elements: the motor states or impulses, which are primary; the agreeable or painful states, which are secondaryUnconscious organic protoplasmic sensibility; microorganismsChemical interpretation; psychological interpretationAre there pure states of feeling?Affirmative factsThe period of needs, the instinct of conservationThe period of primitive emotionsHow they may be determined; the genetic or chronological methodFear, anger, affection, the self-feeling, sexual emotionAre joy and grief emotions?The abstract emotions and their conditionsThe passions are the equivalent in feeling of an intellectual obsession. At the outset it may be useful to sketch in rough outline the general evolution of the life of feeling from its humble origin in organic sensibility to its highest and most complex forms. Afterwards we shall present the corresponding and inverse picture, that of its dissolution. If we take at random, in the form in which daily experience gives them to us, the states known under the vague names of sentiments, emotions, passions: joy and sorrow, a toothache, a pleasurable perfume, love or anger, fear or ambition, sthetic enjoyment or religious emotion, the rage of gambling or benevolence, the shudder of the sublime or the discomfort of disgust, and so on, for they are innumerable, one first observation is obvious even on a superficial 2examination: all these states, whatever they may be, offer a double aspect, objective or external, subjective or internal. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 67585
Author: Ribot, Th. (Théodule)
Release Date: Mar 8, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publication Date: 1897