Basic  Ideas of
Emotion  and  Abreaction

Everyone experiences emotions, but few people can accurately identify them, except for some intense ones such as fear and anger. This inability to identify them results in a lack of self-awareness, and is a major source of self-deception and confusion in theories of human nature.

The first three articles concern emotions and the beliefs associated with them. By learning to identify emotions the person takes the first step towards clearing his mind of confusion.

Then I analyse the process of abreaction. This process is a group of four main sequences of emotions that invariably link together excitement with sorrow, and positive beliefs with negative ones. Abreaction mixes together morality with immorality, purity with degradation. It makes a mess of traditional ideas on ethics and responsibility.

The three articles on emotion and the five articles on abreaction are all long articles. On my website World of Emotion, they are split up into much smaller page sizes in order to make them easier to read and digest. See Links page for the address.

The two basic abreactions of guilt and pride are described in the articles on abreaction. The remaining two abreactions, those of narcissism and jealousy, are described in the article The Conversion Experience, on my websites Patterns of Spirituality and The Strange World of Emotion. See Links page for their addresses.

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