ABSTRACT
In this book, we have considered thirteen emotions: three are intrinsic to rationality, seven are linked to problematic rationality, and three, acceptance, joy, and love, are the emotions of intimacy. Our remaining task is to consider seven additional emotions, of problematic intimacy, which can accompany discordant social relations, particularly when communally shared (CS) and/or equality-matched (EM) social relations assume a negative valence. Identified through straightforward deduction from affect-spectrum theory’s classificatory scheme and associated propositions (see Table 2.3), these seven emotions are:
Disgust (from the negative experience of equality matching (EM–));
Ambivalence = Acceptance & Rejection/Disgust (from the joint experience of EM+ and EM–);
Disembarrassment, lightness, liberation = Disgust/Rejection & Joy (from the joint experience of EM− and CS+);
Resignation = Acceptance & Sadness/Loss (from the joint experience of EM+ and CS–);
Sadness, grief (from the negative experience of communal sharing (CS–));
Bittersweetness = Joy & Sadness (from the joint experience of CS+ and CS–); and
Misery, forlornness, loneliness = Disgusting/Rejected & Saddened (from the joint experience of EM− and CS−).
