Sublime

Like the sense of hearing, emotion communicates information. It has, as Freud said of anxiety, a “signal function.” From feeling we discover our own viewpoint on the world.

We say the most awful things to our partner in an attempt to unburden ourselves of our emotions.

Não consigo aceitar a ideia de que os outros também são seres humanos e estão passando por vários estados emocionais.

one partner becomes critical and aggressive and the other defensive and distant.

me?”

Feeling close to someone by feeling like that person, feeling intimate through sharing the other’s moods, opens the door to feelings that directly threaten our capacity for pleasure. We often experience difficulty in being turned on if we identify with the unhappiness of the other.