Amid the fears, resentments, and competitive concerns that are endemic even to good societies, public emotions rooted in love in intense attachments to things outside our control can foster commitment to shared goals and keep at bay the forces of disgust and envy.
More recently, the outburst of violence associated with the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia has been a reminder that Eastern Europe is still a volatile and unpredictable region of the world, one still capable of being driven by powerful emotions rooted in the distant past.
There were lots of tears of happiness and self-pinching to see if it all was really true - feelings that most of us white Americans could share to a point but weren't able to fully tap into -- a well of deep-seated emotions rooted in generations of struggle to have an equal place at the American table.
For De Vos, Benedict's text had been both an inspiration and a foil, against which he argued that the Japanese are a deeply interiorized and guilt-ridden people and not motivated by external emotions rooted in social shame as Benedict had described.
It is an exercise in manufactured emotion whose roots lie in maternal suffering: Woodrow Wilson declared the first official American Mother's Day as a tribute to the mothers who had lost sons in the war.
This modern emotion is rooted in an ancient survival instinct, and there's good reason the saying starts with "fear," according to Jenny Giblin, a psychotherapist in New York.
It leads to social isolation and emotional pain, and creates the conditions for negative emotions to take root.
With the appropriate support, you'll hopefully be able to sort through all your thoughts and emotions, find the root cause of your nightmares, and adopt some skills and healthy lifestyle behaviors to prevent them in the future.
We might not relate to the exhibitionism, but we can certainly relate to the root emotions, to her desire to have it all.
Our brains are wired such that emotions are the root of all human behavior.
