ABSTRACT
MANY PSYCHOLOGISTS ASSUME THAT AFFECT AND ACTION ARE MUtually exclusive. According to this assumption, where there is uninhibited action there is no affect and, conversely, affect arises only where action is either inhibited, delayed, or not possible for some other reason, e.g., conditions of reality. Among the adherents of this view, which is consistent with a conflict theory of emotions and which increasingly seems to dominate the field of affect theory, are Bergson, John Dewey, Freud and many of his followers, McCurdy, and, recently, Sartre and Nina Bull.1
