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The Mystery of Emotions - Seeking a Theory of What We Feel (Paperback)
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The Mystery of Emotions - Seeking a Theory of What We Feel (Paperback)
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Psychoanalysis is, above all, the science of the emotions but, as
yet, there is no single accepted theory of affects. Instead, there
are many, all of them too limited, based, as they are, on
idiosyncratic introspection. R. D. Hinshelwood presents an
extensive scoping of the prominent theories from the philosophy of
mind and academic psychology alongside a review of psychoanalytic
ideas based on instinct theory or object relations. This wide
review of divergent theories from various disciplines helps to
mitigate variation and identify commonalities. From this scoping
exercise, Hinshelwood creates a form of qualitative meta-analysis
which enables the most common dimensions to come to the fore -
namely, 113 features of affects form a more general theory with
four dimensions. This more systematic view offers an affective
'space' as a model for thinking about the nature of affects, their
origins, and their consequences. At the same time, Hinshelwood
retains the personal. He starts with the memory which initiated his
quest to understand how much we are rooted in the experience of our
feelings and includes a chapter documenting his own idiosyncrasies
to bring his own bias to the fore. In this way, the book preserves
the especially personal and intimate quality of its universal
topic.
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