ABSTRACT

One could have stated that inner adaptation as an organizing principle and a function of the CNS had to be discovered on the basis of expressions of feeling, because these expressions originate from inner adaptation and not from outer adaptation. All specific forms of expression, movements and vegetative phenomena, can be understood in the light of the actual genesis of communication processes during which they occur. Although emotions, as well as their expression, are symptoms of communication processes through which the organism and the world are related, they nevertheless are related to inner processes of the organism. All the details of expression of movements and vegetative phenomena manifest themselves in emotion after having gone through the process of mutual inner adaptation between the systems. Intentions, which after polarization require various stages of thought or a complex action or an exact observation, receive a fulfillment in the emotion and its expression. This fulfillment is of an immediate but partial nature.