Vision, emotion and feeling - Christopher Bollas

"Just as our eyes see the visual world, we feel the emotional word: we sense emotional states in ourselves and others. The capacity to use this sende of feeling will vary according to the degree of an individual`s emotional life - which, in turn, will grow out of the quality of our experience in infancy, which form a sort of unconscious emotional data bank"

Bollas, "The Evocative Object World", P.41