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Laberinto sentimental, El

Laberinto sentimental, El in Bloomington, MN
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Somos inteligencias emocionales. Nada nos interesa más que los sentimientos, porque en ellos consiste la felicidad o la desdicha. Son lo más íntimo a nosotros y lo más ajeno. Actuamos para mantener un estado de ánimo, para cambiarlo, para conseguirlo. No sentimos lo que querríamos sentir. Somos depresivos cuando quisiéramos ser alegres. Nos recomen las envidias, los miedos, los celos, la desesperanza. Desearíamos ser generosos, valientes, tener sentido del humor, vivir amores intensos, librarnos del aburrimiento, pero nos zarandean emociones imprevistas o indeseadas. Incluso un sentimiento tan tranquilo como la calma nos «invade». Podría leerse la historia de nuestra cultura como el intento de contestar a una sola pregunta: ¿qué hacemos con nuestros sentimientos? El autor cree que, ante todo, conocerlos. Para ello se interna en el laberinto sentimental, con la colaboración de la psicología más actual y de la filosofía de todos los tiempos. Encuentra pasiones violentas y afectos tranquilos, sentimientos próximos y emociones exóticas. Estudia cómo el niño construye su mundo sentimental y cómo el adulto se encuentra viviendo en una casa tal vez inhabitable.
We are emotional intelligences. Nothing interests us more than feelings, because they are what makes us happy or unhappy. They are the most intimate thing about us and the most alien to us. We act to maintain a state of mind, to change it, to achieve it. We do not feel what we would like to feel. We are depressed when we would like to be happy. We are driven by envy, fear, jealousy, and hopelessness. We would like to be generous, brave, have a sense of humor, experience intense love, and be free from boredom, but we are shaken by unexpected or unwanted emotions. Even a feeling as calm as tranquility "invades" us. The history of our culture could be read as an attempt to answer a single question: what do we do with our feelings? The author believes that, above all, we must know them. To do so, he delves into the labyrinth of sentiment, with the collaboration of the most current psychology and the philosophy of all times. He finds violent passions and calm affections, close feelings and exotic emotions. It studies how children build their emotional world, and how adults find themselves living in a house that is perhaps uninhabitable.
We are emotional intelligences. Nothing interests us more than feelings, because they are what makes us happy or unhappy. They are the most intimate thing about us and the most alien to us. We act to maintain a state of mind, to change it, to achieve it. We do not feel what we would like to feel. We are depressed when we would like to be happy. We are driven by envy, fear, jealousy, and hopelessness. We would like to be generous, brave, have a sense of humor, experience intense love, and be free from boredom, but we are shaken by unexpected or unwanted emotions. Even a feeling as calm as tranquility "invades" us. The history of our culture could be read as an attempt to answer a single question: what do we do with our feelings? The author believes that, above all, we must know them. To do so, he delves into the labyrinth of sentiment, with the collaboration of the most current psychology and the philosophy of all times. He finds violent passions and calm affections, close feelings and exotic emotions. It studies how children build their emotional world, and how adults find themselves living in a house that is perhaps uninhabitable.