ABSTRACT
Following the suggestions derivable from Prince’s observations, we are now in a position to formulate with greater exactness a tentative theory of affect. Dewey’s theories leave one a little cold because his “conflict” is described so much in intellectualistic terms that one feels such conflict to be dispassionate in its nature, of a different order from the kind of thing one would expect to find as the central factor in a dynamic situation. Furthermore his views demand the operation of unconscious thinking without his giving any demonstration of it. Now, however, we are in a position to fill in these gaps, although several of our terms involve assumptions the validity of which is still to be proved. Our new formulation, then, would be:
