ABSTRACT
UP TO THIS POINT we have been dealing with theories whose main concern is the nature and origin of emotion. We have been told what emotion is: a distinct entity, energy, a quantity, etc. And we have been told where it comes from: physiological location, situations, phylogenesis, representations, etc. This group of theories asks, and seeks the answer to, another question. What does emotion signify, intend, indicate, mean? What is its purpose?
