Emotion


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1 The nature and causes of the emotions or passions.
2 Emotion in relation to feelings of pleasure and pain.
3 Bodily changes during emotional excitement.
4 Instinctive emotional reactions in animals and men.
5 The classification and enumeration of the emotions.
6 Definitions of particular passions.
7 The order and connection of the passions.
8 The opposition of particular emotions to one another.
9 Dread and despair, the courage of faith.
10 The disorder or pathology of the passions.
11 Madness or frenzy due to emotional excess, excessively emotional or emotionally over-determined behavior.
12 Rationalization or the emotional determination of thought.
13 Particular emotional disorders, psychoneuroses due to repression - Hysterias, Obsessions and compulsions, Phobias and anxieties, Traumas and traumatic neuroses.
14 The alleviation and cure of emotional disorders.
15 The moral consideration of the passions.
16 The conflict between reason and emotion .
17 The force of the passions.
18 The strength of reason or will.
19 The treatment of the emotions by or for the sake of reason .
20 Moderation of the passions by reason, virtue, continence, avoidance of sin.
21 Attenuation and atrophy of the passions, the liberation of reason.
22 Inherited or acquired emotional dispositions, the moral significance of temperamental types, emotional torpor or lethargy.
23 The passions in society, politics, and history.
24 The causes of political association, fear or need.
25 The acquisition and retention of power, love or fear.
26 The coercive force of law, fear of punishment.
27 The devices of oratory, emotional persuasion.
28 The regulation of art for the sake of training the passions.


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