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There are certain emotions that are common to the entire spectrum of humanity. These are basic, easy to evoke, fast to arrive and of relatively fleeting duration.
Rudimentary Emotions
('Happiness' and 'sadness' belong in a category of 'Moods' as 'Joy' is the emotion that brings the state of Happiness and the continued application of the others, in often changing proportions, leads to the state of Sadness.)
The next are composed of layers of personal judgements, experiences, thusly highly subjective and not guaranteed to be found from culture to culture in the same form. They take longer to coalesce from the above factors and can take a long time to die away - if at all. There are some overlaps, eg 'disgust' at, say, vomit and 'disgust' at someone's treatment of another or their opinions.
Higher Cognitive Emotions
So much depends on what is considered to be 'normal' behaviour and response to the unexpected in life. Some cultures have emotions that are not recognised by other groups of people – like 'running amok' in Malaya – a temporary madness brought about by the transition from carefree teen to a responsibility-laden adult, wherein the young man will run around smashing things and starting fights as he grapples with his frustration.
Crazy, huh? Maybe not - in the West, there is a condition whereby a middle aged man realises that his youth has departed and attempts to recreate the things he misses – or thinks he missed - with often disastrous and pitiful results. Akin to a last desperate rampage of sexual adventures by a woman who feels the onset of menopause – before you mock.
Or 'a feeling of complete acceptance and approval by one's peers' in Japan.
These are widespread conditions but although we recognise the states, they do not exist in identical form in every culture; there is no short name ascribed to them, only a general description.
But how do we manipulate, encourage or plant the seeds of emotions, emotional states or moods?
These are very fundamental skills used by parents, teachers, lovers , Sadists, Masters and interrogators to control and manipulate those in their charge. For good or for ill.
Read the links and enjoy.
A tool with which to plan the emotional progress of play/ a scene or to chart the progress for future reference:
The Affect Circumplex
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Number the points at which you wish your sub/prey to arrive at, in that order (or plot the times at which they arrived there). You can then concentrate on devising the means to put them there. Bring them up, put them down. But only when you permit them to be there.
Factors to bear in mind:
This construction is used in many different situations. One should especially analyse one's own emotional state and processes before calculating another's, en route to manipulating and toying with the other's psyche.
Edited Sun 11 Dec 11, 9:35 AM by Mad_Monk
