Emotion
Parent categories: love - hate
Instances: alienation - anger - angst - boredom - catharsis - ecstasy - disgust - experience - fear - feeling - happiness - laughter - lust - need - pain - pleasure - pride - sense - sentimentalism - shame
Romanticism [*] was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the late 18th century and stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical correctness in art forms, and rebellion against social conventions.
Joy of a Toy (1969) - Kevin Ayers [Amazon.com]
Cover Art Joy of a Toy, 1969, Kevin Ayers
Definition
Emotion is the subjective, internal experience by an individual of a group of biological reactions arising in response to some situation (as opposed to the emotion being consciously willed to occur). There is a feeling, or affective, response (sadness, anger, joy), a physiological response (changes in internal bodily functioning), a cognitive response (an interpretation of the situation), and possibly also a behavioral response (an outward expression).
Questions concerning the mystery of human emotion were the territory of any number of disciplines until the development of modern psychology. Over the last century, psychologically-based theories have provided influential, if incomplete explanations of how emotional experience is produced. --http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion
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