Dear Don
you wrote: "As for the sublime, I don't count that as an emotion. She was sublime? I am sublime? I am sublimed with her. At her? By her? Instead of her?"
Besides the active and passive aspects (she causes me to feel sublime), I think that clusters of emotions that we have bothered to name are best treated as affects and hence we can look to name significant clusters of emotions that bind themself in disruptive ways - either positive or negative. In my own work I argue that these clusters amount to identity affects - potentially they both bring an identity state to consciousness and they reinforce an existing identity state.
cheers
keith russell
OZ newcastle
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