ABSTRACT
RETURNING to the conclusions of Chapter II, i.e. that emotions are invisible forces which form character according to laws of relationship, then we need only postulate for them a region or manifold (to use the term of Wundt and Allport) somewhere 'outside' or 'below' the region of awareness and we have the basis of explanation of the theories of this group. This is how Grossart proceeds. For him emotions are 'ultimate, real existents, psychic forces or tendencies, independent of consciousness', so that 'the search for the essence of emotion leads necessarily to the question of the unconscious, or better said, of unconscious psychic forces'. 1 Thus emotion here will be explained by means of the concept of the unconscious. Other explanatory ideas are brought in, such as: conflict, accompaniment, representations, energy, etc., but what differentiates the theories here from those which depend upon these other ideas is the explanation through the unconscious. This concept is essential to these views.
