Emotion (glossary entry)
Within my systems of awareness and reality, emotion is the level above physical and below mental.
Acting
Actors have a special ability to summon any emotional state, together with its physiological manifestations, effortlessly and at a moment's notice.
In their training actors notice that there are some states normally thought of as "emotional", which cannot be summoned as easily. The "actable" emotions were called "open" and "instinctive" by Darwin; the others were described by Freud as "hidden" or "repressed"1.
The five major "actable" emotions are:
- mad : anger, rage, etc.
- sad : grief
- glad : joy, happy lightness, euphoria
- afraid
- ashamed
In addition to these are several less common states that are also able to be summoned using the same techniques (e.g. those of Stanislavski):
- physiological sexual arousal (most notably the emotional state of orgasm)
- calmness (turning other emotions off at will even those that did not originate voluntarily, also called using the observer mind)
- contempt or "attitude" (commonly exhibited by models on the runway in a fashion show)
1 :
Oliver Sacks, Face-Blind: Why are some of us terrible at
recognizing faces?, New Yorker magazine, 2010 August 30.
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