Emotions and the Body in Early Modern Medicine

Abstract

Drawing on Latin treatises, letters, and autobiographical writings, this article outlines the changes in the—thoroughly somatic—learned medical understanding of the emotions (or “affectus/passiones animi”) between 1500 and 1800 and their impact on lay experience. The mixture of the four natural humors explained individuals’ different propensity to certain emotions. The emotions as such, however, were described primarily as movements of the spirits and the blood towards or away from external objects. The term “e(s)motion” emerged. The final part highlights the 18th-century shift from spirits and blood to the nerves as the principal site of the emotions. Physicians and laypersons alike now associated the emotions closely with the peculiar nervous sensibility and irritability of individuals and groups.

Duygu Düzenleme ve Psikiyatri Hemşireliğine Yansımaları

“…Bu terim batı dilindeki birçok kelimenin kökenini oluşturur. "Esmotion", "esmouvoir" gibi kelimelerin İngiliz literatürüne geçmeden önce Fransa'da kullanıldığı belirtilmiştir (Stolberg 2019). Sonraki yıllarda Eski Fransa'da (12. yy) kışkırtmak anlamına gelen "esmouvoir" ve Orta dönem Fransa' da (16. yy) ise fiziksel bir hareket, coşku-kıpırtıajitasyon anlamlarında kullanılmaya başlandığı görülmektedir (Online Ethymology Dictionary 2020).…”

Metaforische conceptualisatie van emoties in Nederlandse vaste verbindingen

“…Deze conceptuele metafoor is op een generiek niveau in alle genoemde 69 In dit boek worden vroegere studies van Geeraerts gebundeld. 70 Stolberg (2019) toont in zijn onderzoek ook de rol aan van de humorenleer tot de 18de eeuw. Daarna ging het accent vallen op de zenuwen.…”

From blocked flows to suppressed emotions: the life of a trope

“…8. Michael Stolberg (2019), “Emotions and the Body in Early Modern Medicine,” Emotion Review 11 , no. 2: 113–22.…”