ABSTRACT
The fact that hatred, in contrast to states such as displeasure, anger, rage, to some extent disgust, is a stance, which to some extent structures and represents the person, goes closely with depth and centrality. And less 'centrality' without depth, as in the satisfaction of an interest, the elimination of an acutely uncomfortable business rival. The feature of depth is at all events more to the fore than that of centrality. There can be anger, without any depth, and it can be directed towards an object with which the subject has otherwise, generally and continuously, thoroughly positive emotional ties: thus parents can be beside themselves with anger if they hear that their darling child has behaved with life-threatening carelessness. As hatred is the negative, so is love the positive stance towards an object, and both presuppose an 'engagement' of one's own person.
