The art of sound pictures (1930)

FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS 147 normal relationship, compliance is followed by dominance, and inducement is followed by submission. We have already noted the conflicts which result when compliance becomes the final end or purpose of any given action containing dominance. The emotions of jealousy, hatred, and rage are made possible by inducement becoming the final purpose of an action which contains submission. There are, of course, innumerable complex actions which express all four primary emotions arranged in their correct and normal order of succession and purposive relationship. The following illustration, however, accurately describes the normal relation between the four elementary emotions in complex action. A clinical psychologist quietly questions his patient and passively observes his behavior during many preliminary consultations. He then collects his notes and observations, concentrates his thought upon the entire case, and makes an analysis of the patient’s mental difficulties and maladjustments of personality. The psychologist then begins to persuade the patient to change his course of action in accordance with professional advice. In the end, the psychologist removes the patient’s emotional difficulties and effects a more normal and efficient organization of his personality, thereby improving his life and increasing his happiness. In the behavior of the psychologist during the treatment of his patient, we see expressions of the four elementary emotions in their proper order: (i) compliance; (2) dominance; (3) inducement; (4) submission. The psychologist begins by complying completely with the patient’s existing state of personality and emotion (a method strongly advocated by Alfred Adler). The psy