[lit-ideas] Re: Tune in and turn off


--- Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > [Original Message]
> > From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 4/28/2006 6:54:50 AM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Tune in and turn off
> >
> >
> > --- Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > They were defined in the other exchanges between
> Donal and me. > 
> >
> > I'm not sure they were or that this much matters.
> It seems we can clearly
> get
> > a 'feeling' when we pinch our finger and yet this
> is not an 'emotion'. But
> > emotions and feelings my glide into each other.
> >
> 
> I'm sensing a resistance, which always (yes, always
> except in select
> circles) seems to be the case when discussing
> feelings and emotions.  The
> intellect becomes a shield, a defense against things
> of the body, which is
> the emotions.  The only bodily sensations allowed
> are sex and food, and
> those become obsessed upon.  

*Well, add drinking and smoking there. On a slightly
more serious note, isn't there something about
emotions that is inherently difficult to discuss ?
That is, they are not supposed to be discursive are
they ? Discussing  emotions in a rational way tends to
water them down somehow doesn't it.

O.K.

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