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Full Idea
Joy is the magical behaviour which tries, by incantation, to realise the possession of the desired object as an instantaneous totality. [47] Emotions are all reducible to the constitution of a magic world by using our bodies as instruments of incantation.
Gist of Idea
Emotions are a sort of bodily incantation which brings a magic to the world
Source
Jean-Paul Sartre (Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions [1939], §III)
Book Ref
Sartre,Jean-Paul: 'Sketch for a Theory of Emotions' [Routledge 1994], p.46
A Reaction
I can't pretend to understand this, but I am reminded of the fact that the so-called primary qualities of perception are innately boring, and it is only the secondary qualities (like colour and smell) which make the world interesting.
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| 24016 | Consciousness always transcends itself [Sartre] |
| 24015 | Emotions makes us believe in and live in a new world [Sartre] |
| 24013 | An emotion and its object form a unity, so emotion is a mode of apprehension [Sartre] |
| 24017 | Emotion is one of our modes of understanding our Being-in-the-World [Sartre] |
| 24014 | Emotions are a sort of bodily incantation which brings a magic to the world [Sartre] |