PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chocolate Cake, Mesopotamia, Intellectual Virtue
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E(cid:454)(cid:272)essi(cid:448)e e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s dis(cid:396)upt (cid:858)(cid:395)i(cid:859) a(cid:374)d i(cid:373)pai(cid:396) i(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:374)al o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)s. Happy, sad, anger, worry, anxiety, fear, terror. If you had too much anger move qi upwards impair liver and headaches. If you had too much joy relax qi too much impair heart and produce weakness: emotions are thought to be passive something that happens to you. Emotional expressions were not portrayed on faces. Animals had emotions portrayed emotion was animalistic behavior. Historically it was not deemed socially appropriate to express your emotions (especially the case for upper class people) Emphasis on the brain and not the heart. They used to think that the brain was completely useless they used to put all the organs in jars and throw away from brain when mummifying. Thought about the fluids in the body. Fever hot and dry ailment excess of yellow bile (induce the opposite state, need wet and cold)
