ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the some theories and views of emotion. The theories are: the James-Lange theory of emotion; the psychological formulations of R. S. Lazarus, J. R. Averill and E. M. Opton,; and the sociological formulations of T. D. Kemper, A. R. Hochschild, S. Shott, T. J. Scheff, and Collins. It also include: S. Freud's model of the emotions; J. A. Lacan's psychoanalytic theory of the Other, speech, desire, and history; Scheff's theory of emotional catharsis; and J. P. Sartre's theory of emotion. The prevailing meaning of emotion in the theories to be reviewed stresses the physiological and nonconscious mental features of emotion. The James-Lange theory of emotion has been the subject of considerable scientific debate since its publication by William James in Principles of Psychology. A number of recent psychological theorists have significantly advanced beyond James's physiologically grounded theory by emphasizing the cognitive, affective, phenomenological, situational, motivational, and interactional dimensions of emotion and emotionality.
