What
is an emotion?
Basically, Emotion can be
defined as a manifestation of the emotional life, usually accompanied by a
pleasurable or painful state of consciousness. Emotion is a disorder of
variable duration, an imbalance. The disorder is sometimes violent, and
increases movements (anger, excitement), or, alternatively, a motion to stop
(or fear “thunderbolt” in love). The emotion is sometimes an exciting,
sometimes a narcotic. The impact on the body can go to the syncope, but most
often limited to minimal physical manifestations (flushing, pallor, …).
The emotion, unlike the
passion that comes as a result of the sustained imbalance, an imbalance is
ephemeral, which marks the effort of the individual to bend to circumstances.
Emotion is a reaction to a new and unexpected situation.
Depending on the nature of the
disorder created, there are often emotional shock and emotional feeling. The
second is more durable than the first but also more diffuse.
The
nature of this feeling
Before Sartre, emotion was
thought as a pure reaction: I see a bear, so I’m afraid. However, in his Theory
of Emotions, Sartre has shown that emotion is not a reaction, but a man’s
behavior. It is indeed the man who produces and maintains, for example, who is
forced to admit his mistakes or take an initiative whose responsibility it
weighs may get angry to deny the situation. Emotion is a “magic pipe”, an
effort to change the world by his own psychic forces. Emotion seeks to restore
the world as the individual who feels like. Every emotion has a meaning,
reveals an intention can be conscious.
In short, we are responsible
for our emotions. They express the choices we make in our being-in-the-world.
Quotes
on emotion by philosophers:
Kant: “The emotion is the
feeling of pleasure or displeasure of a current that does not leave the subject
to achieve reflection. In emotion, spirit surprised printing loses power over
himself “(Anthropology)
Sartre: “An emotion is a
transformation of the world”
Alain Badiou: “Emotion is a system of
movement that stood in the heart without the permission of the will, and that
suddenly changes the color of the thoughts. “
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