Eventually, this was adapted by the Provençal troubadours from the Arab courts in Andalusia who sang of yearning for the beloved, elevating the sensibilities of the European mind from mere sensuality to a new refinement of emotion.
The paradox of intimate confession and aesthetic refinement, of theoretical abstraction and first-person emotion, is the very blend that makes Bergman one of the exemplary modern directors and one of the exemplary objects of parody.
Here the emotions are concealed, there is subtlety, refinement and beauty and all of this never leaves the audience unmoved".
None of them, however, maintained that the emotions were immune to training and refinement, and indeed all early modern philosophers took it as important for both morality and happiness that we do train our emotions.
Recent refinements to behavioral, subjective, psychophysiological and neuroimaging methods allow emotion regulation to be captured and assessed in the laboratory with greater precision.
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Decreases in first-person singular pronouns ("I", "mine"); Decreases in exclusive words, words that signal increasing refinement of the thought being expressed ("but" and "or"); Increases in negative emotion words ("hate", "angry"); and.
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The difference is considerable, since on one view the emotions are regarded as in themselves destructive and so to be purged, while on the other, the emotions may be perfectly healthy, even though, like other psychological states, they may be improved by refinement.
Its refinement was admired.
