Character and temperament / by Joseph Jastrow.

  • Joseph Jastrow
Date:
1915
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Credit: Character and temperament / by Joseph Jastrow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rAGRESSIVE^ (-Individual or Social in Direction active in f food j stage ■* family i- situations Primary Emotions, are play or in Attitude Defensive The above classification may be repeated for the social emotions, although the situations apply so imperfectly that they may be con¬ sidered as merged, 'there will accordingly be fewer distinctive or nameablo social emotions of primary type. They abound in deriva¬ tive varieties, as the text illustrates. Such a table does not imply that there are just the twelve pri¬ mary individual emotions for which spaces are provided, or that each situation engages but a single emotion. Its purpose is to place and relate the chief emotions. Thus anger is individual, aggressive, preliminary, and may be aroused by play, combat, sex-rivalry, or any derivative situation; it implies self-assertion, which may be aroused in combat or in the chase. The food-situ¬ ations are most specific; the play-situations most variable. “Family” covers such diverse attitudes as those concerned in courtship and in the care of the young; yet the coyness of the fe¬ male in the one relation makes for tenderness in the other rela¬ tion. Curiosity is exercised in nearly all situations. In brief the fusion of emotions sets a prompt limit to the rigidity and profit of classification. Note 12, page 133. The original tendencies of man act piece-meal and in combinations. The potency of a situation is a compound of forces. Its bonds are real but there are so many of them that the best of inventories, if brief, would have to be a caricature. Original nature is not a set of perfectly independent mechanisms any more than it is a hodge-podge for chance. It is a cluster or hierarchy of mechanisms with very many compo-
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