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

It seems to me that anger, sadness and anxiety are all secondary emotions  
piggy-backing on the primary emotion of fear.  
 
Julie Krueger
 

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>> I think it can be argued that there  are three basic *negative* emotions,
> to
> > whit - anger,  sadness, anxiety > 

>I would also distinguish between emotions  and
> feelings.  

I'm not sure I get this distinction. Or that  it much matters to the thesis
that there are only three basic negative  emotions/feelings/psychological
states.


>Anxiety isn't really  an emotion.  It's the vague turbulence, for
> lack of a better word,  for what goes on when an emotion is submerged.  Get
> to the anger,  hatred, grief or fear and the anxiety will go away. Sadness
> is a more  nuanced emotion, it's also important.  

Can't it be argued that fear  is just a form of anxiety, and equally that
depression or "grief" are just  forms of sadness?

Your comment also has a flavour of Freud's 'hydraulic'  theory of the mind,
which I understand does not stand  up.

Donal



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