ABSTRACT
I will not attempt here a complete review of the history of the ways in which emotions have been described and conceptualized. Freud's view of emotions, which is the one most familiar to psychoanalysts, simply reflected the physiological and psychiatric attitudes of his age. It was burdened with the mind-body schism and with a mechanistic attitude toward the body processes. Thinking of mental function as a reflex arc produced a consideration of emotions as discharge phenomena.
