An exploration of some aspects of the temporality of emotion. Emotions
take shape in "paradigm scenarios": we cannot respond emotionally
to present situations without being in a special relation to a certain
privileged set of past experie nces. By the same token the paradigm scenarios
are liable to act as screens, ("transference"), concealing from us the
reality of the particular present with the shadow of the past. In the light
of these psychological constraints, a central problem for emo tional education
is to find a way in which we can achieve both flexibility and growth in
our repertoire of paradigm scenarios.