ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Stanislavsky’s insights about human emotions and feelings, referring to contemporary concepts developed by Antonio Damasio. Also, Stanislavsky’s remarks on the work of memory are consistent with Gerald M. Edelman’s much later findings and hypotheses, rather than with views on the matter in his day.
The chapter presents characters utilised in Stanislavsky’s exercises as predators or potential victims (with the ‘burning money’ exercise as a crowning example of failed crisis management). Finally, it discusses Stanislavsky’s techniques on overcoming one’s own vulnerability and on dominating the human environment through suggestive, active categorisation of the surrounding world.
