ABSTRACT
Précis: We have already discussed the activation of genes in relation to emotional attention in Part I, Chapters One and Two. However, here we are taking the time and space to review more of the details of this perspective, so as to put learning into a clear context: that of emotional events with special meaning to the self. One key, however, is recognizing that emotion does not merely contextualize our experience, as critical as this function is; emotion also expresses our meanings to our self, and to the world, in ways that invite further elaboration of our fundamental drive states through fantasy, and eventually through various need-related actions.
