ABSTRACT
The science of the emotions or feelings constituted the most undeveloped chapter in the old psychology. That the emotions arise on the basis of the instincts and constitute closely related branches of these latter is not difficult to see. This has led certain researchers into considering instinctive emotional behavior as a unitary whole. The ideal of emotional education would appear to consist not in the development and reinforcement of the emotions, but, on the contrary, in their suppression and attenuation. Thus, understood as a secondary reaction, an emotional reaction is a powerful guide of behavior. It is in an emotional reaction that the purposefulness of our organism manifests itself. The emotions have to be considered as a system of anticipatory reactions that inform the organism as to the near future of his behavior and organize the different forms of this behavior.
