Chapter 15

THE EMOTIONS

1. The producing and expressing of emotion: Physiological explanation of emotion--Origin of characteristic emotional reactions--The duration of an emotion--Emotions accompanying crises in experience. 2. The control of emotions: Dependence on expression--Relief through expression--Relief does not follow if image is held before the mind--Growing tendency toward emotional control--The emotions and enjoyment--How emotions develop--The emotional factor in our environment--Literature and the cultivation of the emotions--Harm in emotional overexcitement. 4. Emotions as motives: How our emotions compel us--Emotional habits. 5. Problems in observation and introspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239