Eduardo Garcia Emotions Essay

February 7 2011

What are emotions? How are emotions express or felt? Are emotions divided into primary and secondary emotions? According to the Merriam Webster dictionary emotions are a conscious mental reaction (as anger or fear) subjectively experienced as strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body. Human emotions are like colors, are divided into primary and secondary emotions. The primary emotions are emotions that are the base or the starting point. Depending on whom you ask there are different primary emotions. Some of this categorizations are based on religious believes.

The religious groups believe that there are only two types of emotions, that are love and hate, and every other emotion comes from one of those two, or is the combination of the two. I think that this can be view as the colors, there is white and black and every thing in between comes from the combination of these two colors or are half points from these two colors. Expert in psychology state that there are more than only two primary emotions, but are do not concur in which are the primaries.

I think that there are 3 types of primary emotions. The first is the happiness; all the happy things and all the things that come when you are happy evolve from this one, such is love, joy, goodwill, humidly and so forths. Another primary emotion

is anger, in this column other fellings can evolve such as, frustration, jealousy, envy and madness. Also I think that sadness is a primary emotion, from this one other emotions can be derived, such as depression, remorse, self-lobbing, and loneliness. For me this are the tree primary emotions and all the other emotions that a human been can feel are derived from this one or form part in of one of this groups. All this emotions can be combined to form other emotions such is the case of obsession, lost, hate or pleasure. They can be combined within the same column or other columns.

The difficult of the emotions and classifying theme is that every one feel the emotions in a different way and react different, and the reaction will lead to different ways of feeling other emotions. The human body and brain is a complex organizing than until this day no one can be sure of how it works and why it works that way. If emotions are thing that are felt in the body as of a reaction on the brain, then until the day that we are sure of how the brain works we will not be sure of what are truly emotions and the meaning.