ABSTRACT
Denial of the existence of motor consciousness has brought psychology to an impasse in the field of theory of feeling tone, just as it has hampered the adequate development of theory of emotion. Wundt's 1 tridimensional theory of feeling tone, propounded in 1896, constitutes the only radical departure from general agreement that pleasantness and unpleasantness are the only two primary feelings. Wundt supposed that there were six primary feelings : pleasantness and unpleasantness, excitement and depression, tension and relaxation. Wundt's theory was based almost altogether upon introspection, probably accurate enough as far as it went, but not linking up the four extra feeling tone elements with definite psycho-neural mechanisms proving them to be primary feelings.
