ABSTRACT

This chapter addresses a collection of remarks by Wittgenstein on an area of research in psychology whose theoretical difficulties he anticipated the so-called 'facial feedback hypothesis.' It discusses the causes of emotions, James's hypothesis, cognitive theories, plan for the treatment of psychological concepts, sensations and emotions, genuine duration, synchronization, degrees, qualitative mixtures and characteristic course, directed and undirected emotions. It also includes objects of emotion as targets, natural expressions and primary language-games of emotion, the role of context, intentionality of emotions, transitive and intransitive emotion verbs, immediate experience, emotion knowledge and facial feedback hypothesis. The idea that more refined forms of emotional expression replace natural expressions of emotion indicates that any effort to present a complete description of emotional behavior must take into consideration the social framework within which the behavior takes place. In psychology, 'sensation' is reserved to describe the results of activity in sensory receptors.