...bodily symptoms from an imaged emotional state and see what remains. James says we will discover that "we have nothing left behind. no 'mind-stuff out of which the emotion can be constituted." James finds further evidence for the necessity of bodily changes in contemporary observations of individuals...

...such intermediate thoughts could not have such strong effects by themselves: William James 1890: "If we fancy some strong emotion and then try to abstract...bodily symptoms we find we have nothing left behind, no "mind stuff" out of which the emotion can be constituted, and that a cold and neutral state of intellectual...

...sense that he considered to be the essence of the emotional response. To quote his famous words: 'If we fancy some strong emotion and then try to abstract...cold and neutral state of intellectual perception is all that remains' (James 1901, 1890, p. 451). There has been a lot of controversy about this claim,...

...further when he says: "I now proceed to urge the vital point of my whole theory, which is this : If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract...it all the feelings of its bodily symptoms, we find that we have nothing left behind." In other words, that there is always a physical and outward manifestation...

...these bodily changes, he concluded that they, and only they, are what constitute the emotion itself. If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract...from our consciousness of it all the feelings of its characteristic bodily symptoms, we find we have nothing left behind, no "mind-stuff" out of which the...

...the bodily changes, whatsoever it may be, is felt, accurately or obscurely, the moment it occurs. If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract from our consciousness of it all the THE OPT WARP MAHKS OP CHABACTEB II feelings of its bodily symptoms, we have nothing left behind. The...