Emotion

""I wake in the night and the emotions are there. I am afraid of the future, alone. I am tormented by my incapacity to meet what is expected of me. It would be easier just to be dead." What is the meaning of such emotions? What is emotion itself? What is really happening in therapy when people "express their emotions"?" "As James Hillman writes in his new preface to this sweeping study, he intends nothing less than "to vitalize a standard topic of academic psychology by making the theory of emotion as crucial as is emotion itself in our lives." The central part of the book offers an…