Sublime

As world-leading neuroscientist Antonio Damasio articulates, humans are “feeling machines that think.”

I was impressed by how carefully he tracked subtle shifts in body posture, facial expression, tone of voice, and eye gaze, the nonverbal expressions of emotion. (This is called “microtracking” in psychomotor therapy).

Cognitive science teaches us that what we think of as ourselves derives not from a direct experience but from a collage of sensations and images—self-representations, pictures we have of ourselves.

PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.

Les attitudes émotionnelles sont davantage ici des positions que des gestes car tout ce qui concerne les émotions et les affects, par définition, ne se contrôle pas.

In the 1890s Wilhelm Wundt, the founder of experimental psychology, formulated the doctrine of “affective primacy.”7 Affect refers to small flashes of positive or negative feeling that prepare us to approach or avoid something. Every emotion (such as happiness or disgust) includes an affective reaction, but most of our affective reactions are too