ABSTRACT

What would happen if we succeeded in ‘turning down’ our emotional reactions? In this paper I compare two conditions that play out the answer to this question in very different ways—the lived experience of flattened affect characteristic of depression, and the idealised emotional restraint of the tranquil Epicurean ataraxic. I use this comparison to develop a new proposed source of value for the presence of emotion in our ordinary lives: it feels good to feel like oneself, and there are facts about our reflexive relationship to our emotional lives that provides one explanation of when and why we get to feel that way.

中文翻译：

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抑郁症、心律失常和猪

摘要

如果我们成功“抑制”情绪反应，会发生什么？在本文中，我比较了两种以截然不同的方式回答这个问题的条件——抑郁症的扁平化情感特征的生活体验，以及平静的伊壁鸠鲁式安定性的理想化情感克制。我利用这种比较为我们日常生活中的情感存在提出了一种新的价值来源：自我感觉良好，并且有关于我们与情感生活的反射性关系的事实，这些事实提供了对何时以及为何的解释。我们会有这样的感觉。