Excitement is the disruption of organised mass.

Je crois que je sais rien.

GO MISSING STAY

Control is a Possession

In their 1990 experiment Gibbs Jr. and O’Brien ‘Idioms and mental imagery’ subjects
were given a list of five different idioms in five different ‘emotion-categories’: Anger,
Authority, Secretiveness, Insanity and Revelation. An example for an anger idiom would
be ‘hit the ceiling’ and ‘spill the beans’ for revelation. For each idioms subjects were then
asked to comment in regards to the mental imagery, reversibility, intentionality, manner,causation and whether they value the statement as positive or negative for each idiom. They summarized the results (together with results from previous experiments, largely based on Lakoff & Johnson, later Koevecses) as follows:

IDEAS ARE PHYSICAL ENTITIES
THE MIND IS A CONTAINER, THE MIND IS A BRITTLE OBJECT
ANGER IS HEAT, ANGER IS A HOT FLUID (IN A CONTAINER)
CONTROL IS A POSSESSION, CONTROL IS AN INVISIBLE FORCE
INSANITY IS AN INVISIBLE FORCE


- Gibbs Jr. W. R. and O’Brien J. (1990). Idioms and mental Imagery: The Metaphorical
Motivation for Idiomatic Meaning. In: Altmann, G. (ed.), Cognition 36,
35-68. Elsevier
- Kövecses, Z. (2003). Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human
Feeling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Lakoff, G., and Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors we live by. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press

the feeling of a feeling

In ‘The feeling of what happens’ (1999) the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio offers an accessible introductory insight into the concept of consciousness. He identifies consciousness as the essence of all knowing and vice-versa. At the beginning there is an organism and (images of) an object. Only through consciousness do we gain knowledge about the possession of that organism: the organism is me, a sense of self.
"The sense of self is the act of knowing an object is an infusion of new knowledge, continuously created within the brain as long as ‘objects’ actually present or recalled, interact with the organism and cause it to change." (Damasio 1999, p.26)
According to this view an emotion, is an image of an object. However only once it interacts with the organism, it becomes a feeling of that emotion (‘feeling of a feeling’) and only once the organism has gained consciousness this can be known as the feeling of that emotion.

abandoned power # deux

und die Zeit steht still