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Emotion, Thought, and Therapy: A Study of Hume and Spinoza and the Relationship of Philosophical Theories of the Emotions to Psychological Theories O

Author: Jerome Neu
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: theories, philosophical, emotions, psychological, relationship, spinoza, thought, therapy, study, hume, emotion
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 1978-12
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0520032888
ISBN-13: 9780520032880

Book Description:

This is a study of Hume and Spinoza and the relationship of philosophical theories of the emotions to psychological theories of therapy. Hume and Spinoza are the best and most systematic representatives of two opposing traditions of argument about the relation of thought and feeling in the emotions. The Humeans treat emotion as essentially feelings (’impressions’ or ’affects’) with thoughts incidentally attached. The Spinozists say roughly the reverse, treating emotions as essentially thoughts with feelings incidentally attached.

Jerome Neu argues in favor of the Spinozists; that thoughts are of greater importance than feelings in the classification and discrimination of emotional states. He then contends that if the Spinozists are closer to the truth, we have the beginning of an argument to show that Freudian or, more generally, analytic therapies make philosophic sense. That is, we can begin to understand how people’s emotional lives might be transformed by considerations and interpretation of their memories, beliefs, phanties; in other words, how knowledge might help to make one free.


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