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%BEHAVIORAL SHOWING OF EMOTIONS 851110
A society may develop a taboo against behavioral
showing of emotions. In order to be effective such a
taboo must extend to be a taboo against experiencing
emotions which one might wish to demonstrate through
behavior. That which is not privately experienced is less
likely to be openly and honestly demonstrated than that
which is so thoroughly repressed that it does not rise to
an overt state of consciousness. Thus the taboo must
extend to private emotions which must not be demonstrated
to the person in any reflexive way. Emotions must not
become objective realities for the taboo to be effective.
In a society with an effective taboo against emotions
it is possible for true believers in the taboo to contend
that emotions do not exist as objective realities. They
may honestly contend that only behavior is the true
measure of objective realities and so that emotions as
private realities do not exist in any way worthy of public
attention. Such a belief furthers the service of the
taboo. To engage in an open and honest dialogue about
private feelings, hopes, aspirations, fears, etc. is to
violate the taboo and to be vulnerable to punishment for
that crime against society and its privately held beliefs.
Its belief in the taboo must be held privately, else the
taboo would be publicly exposed and deprived of its power.
The society lacks integrity because it can not publicly
declare its private beliefs that private beliefs are not
worthy of public examination. It can not publicly
integrate its deepest beliefs into a coherent whole in
communal expressions of unity.
If we need to "get in touch" with our emotions there
are no scholars, experts, authorities, etc. who can teach
us what our emotions are. Such technocrats will not have
made "getting in touch" a respectable activity. Getting
in touch with ourselves is primarily a process of escaping
taboos and collusions, and so not respectable. It is not
a scholarly activity likely to be taught in graduate
school, and so not likely to be taught by teachers who
have gone to graduate school.
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