The art of sound pictures (1930)

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FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS 19 1 believe that Helen had betrayed her confidence. She accused Helen of treachery and bad faith. She convinced herself that, during the time that Helen had appeared to be her best friend, she had, in fact, been dominating her, Alice, for her own selfish purposes. The final act of dominance on Helen’s part was, of course, her “stealing” Gladys’ affections from Alice. Whereupon, Alice conceived a violent and extreme hatred for Helen, the girl whom she had formerly regarded as her most intimate and submissive friend. Alice had a conflict between the emotions of inducement or captivation, by which she had believed she was holding Helen’s friendship, and the emotion of dominance suddenly evoked by what seemed to Alice a deliberate injury inflicted by her friend Helen. Dominance controlled captivation, and the result was hatred. Had Alice continued to feel captivation or love for Helen, as the ultimate purpose of her conduct, she would not have felt hatred, but rather maternal interest in Helen and a sincere wish to reform her by making her give up her supposed treachery or disloyal conduct for her own sake. When dominance and captivation are felt simultaneously with captivation in control, this active type of emotion always results. It is both pleasant and constructive for the person who feels it. When dominance is allowed to control, the most destructive of all emotions — ^hatred — results, due to the conflict with captivation; and dominance defeats and destroys captivation, just as the person who entertains hatred for another strives desperately to destroy the person hated. The person who permits himself to feel continued hatred destroys his own peace of mind and emotional balance much more effec