Christopher Bollas- Affect and emotional experience

Christopher Bollas - Catch Them Before They Fall

"An affect is a single eternal event, usually a mental-bodily state, such as anxiety, elation, anger or fright. There is, in fact, no such thing as an emoion; there are only 'emotional experiences', which will be consiedeations of many internal elements. An emotional experience is an organization, very much like a dream".

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