ABSTRACT
“Contraction” and “expansion” are two fundamental categories for describing bodily-felt sensation. The structure of contraction and expansion is not specific to emotions, but is a fundamental feature of our bodily-felt experience. Our entire bodily-felt condition continually oscillates between tendencies toward contraction and toward expansion. Envy and jealousy, emotions whose anchoring points and condensation areas are more sharply circumscribed than those of irritation and rage, undoubtedly belong to the emotions of aggression. A phenomenon widely studied in philosophy and closely related to envy is Ressentiment, a mixture of emotions that originates in feelings of inferiority and envy, and often also shame. Anger and indignation are moral emotions or emotions grounded in the sense of justice.
