Background-mood in emotional creativity: A microanalysis

Sundararajan, Louise

doi:10.1075/ce.1.2.03sun

Article published In: Consciousness & Emotion
Vol. 1:2 (2000) ► pp.227–243

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Background-mood in emotional creativity

A microanalysis

Louise Sundararajan | ¿affiliation?

Published online: 20 March 2001

https://doi.org/10.1075/ce.1.2.03sun

Background mood differs from focal emotions in that it is an inchoate “bodily felt sense” rather than full fledged emotional syndromes such as anger, sadness, etc. Microanalysis of a Focusing therapy session is made to illustrate how the cultivation and maintenance of background mood with its characteristic double vision is essential to emotional creativity.

Keywords: background mood, endocept, percept-genesis, bodily felt sense, focusing

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