Name: Inside Out: Emotional Theory Comes Alive
Uploaded: 2019-01-30T07:43:29.000Z
Duration: 9 min 23 s
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Western culture has a long history of emotional anxiety,

Thinkers from the Classical period to the Modern

as opposing forces vying for the mind's control.

An emotional person was seen as weak giving in

to the path of least resistance to base desires

Yoda: "Fear is the path to the Dark Side."

The strong on the other hand would rule their emotions with reason.

"Everyone feels pressure; the point is don't let it show."

Disney personified this struggle in a short 8-minute cartoon

from 1933 called, aptly, 'Reason and Emotion'.

"Within the mind of each of us, these two wage a ceaseless battle for mastering."

The short is a lightly disguised propaganda piece

But it was nonetheless a point of reference for

the Pixar team led by director Pete Docter,

Docter's film is a far more nuanced take on the

appropriate for a post-40 and post-culture evolution age

when we're encouraged, ostensibly at least,

The film tells the story of the eleven year old Riley

as she navigates a move across the country

In this model, each day consists of discrete moments

which are sent during sleep to a vast archive

Very rarely, an experience is so formative

goes on to form the basis of Riley's personality

When Joy and Sadness are accidentally ejected

their cathartic journey through several other mental regions

The catharsis comes when Joy realises that

but essential, perhaps even more essential than she is

The film itself and its message to embrace

But is this model of the mind and its emotions

'Inside Out' bases its theory of emotions

an influential scientist in the psychology of emotion

Ekman posits that there are seven basic emotions

the world over, Ekman says, and can be read

or facial recognition software like those

have praised Inside Out for providing a model

the dominant one in the psychology of emotion

Indeed, the field is a far more fractious one

than the film scientific consultants let on.

This model stands opposite to the key insights

of psychoanalysis for example, which holds that

or distorted expressions of unconscious ideas

In other words, feelings of sadness or joy

Understanding them as specific entities is