The feeble-minded : a guide to study and practice / by E. B. Sherlock, with an introductory note by H. B. Donkin.

Date:
1911
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Credit: The feeble-minded : a guide to study and practice / by E. B. Sherlock, with an introductory note by H. B. Donkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    percept, we have considered ideas apart from the special quality of affection. If we now include within our purview this aspect of ideas also, we are able to take a further step. An idea or percept which is appreciably affected, or, if another way of putting it is preferred, the idea or percept with which an affection is associated, is called a Feeling. But we are able to observe in our minds aflected processes which seem to be much more complex than Feelings. These are what we call Emotions. The term connotes a “moving out” or “expression” as distinct from the “ impression ” which we have so far considered, and we must now deal with the new factor which appears to be introduced. It constantly happens that the effects of stimula- tion, instead of being confined to the development of a sensation, become evident as action, and action will have its equivalent in consciousness in so far as it provides a stimulus to the sense organs. Such equivalents are called Kinaesthetic Ideas. Now emotion involves action, and it would appear to be the ideas arising from this activity which, added to a Feeling, convert it into an Emotion. The Emotion will thus comprise what may be described as primary and secondary groups of ideas. Emotions are numerous and diverse, but for our present purpose we need not proceed further with the classification of them than to indicate that they can all be referred to two, still more easily to six, categories of affection, the more detailed differences between them being dependent on their ideational rather than their affective content. It is generally taught that “ organic ” sensations are mainly responsible
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