ABSTRACT
SOME LIGHT is shed on the 'excess' aspect of emotion by the theories of this group. They bring out another interpretation of quantity—that of massiveness. But here massiveness, the molar nature of emotion, is not to be understood as a quantity in the sense only of a big event, but rather as a totality in the sense of a kind of event. The massiveness of an emotional event takes its meaning not just in the volume, but because this volume expresses a totality. Since the concept of totality carries with it connotations of size, total events are sometimes muddled with big events. But this distinction must be kept in mind in order to perceive the difference between the theories of this group and those in the chapter preceding.
