ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains the Emotional salience which is a matter of tracking core relational themes between our cares and concerns and the external circumstances. These relations are conceived as the way various situations impinge on one's well-being, qua human organism of a certain social and linguistic niche. According to the Tracking Dogma, emotions aim at fitting their intentional objects or targets, which are thereby taken in turn to also be the principal cause of the emotion. Most scenes and memories that appear in Freud's case studies, the source and inspiration for the etiological accounts, do not qualify as traumas. The book explains the source of the familiar ascription of core relational themes that pertain to well-being to some of people emotional patterns as well as the source of the familiar thematic affinities that the developmental accounts use for their story-telling.
