ABSTRACT
THE PROBLEMS of location will be occupying us in this and the next few chapters. We have already met spatial figures of speech in explaining emotion, e.g. as energy in a system, as entities in the unconscious, as zones, as borders between psychic structures. Here, the general concern is with the place of the emotion in the organization of psychic life. Placing, here, means qualitative position within an order of values, or a scale of being, where certain positions are primary and essential and others are secondary and accidental. Spatial concepts are used to express these ideas because spatial concepts lend themselves to statements which combine value and structure. 'Peripheral' and 'central', 'deep' and 'shallow', 'inner' and 'outer' have meanings other than only the description of physical space. Because of this interest in value, distinction, position, a view of emotion as quality also appears in this section.
