INTRODUCTION

As a friend asked my opinion about a story for a zombie movie he was writing: the apathetic, expressionless and unfeeling zombies!, I told him every possible human feeling should be treated. That was the immediate occasion to make an inventory of the category of feelings, to start this work.

Before I had noticed that always the same feelings were mentioned when one described similar (dramatic, social, political or personal) situations, and that in some way those feelings were linked to each other. Did we use a kind of stereotypes while naming emotional situations? Why did a certain situation always remind of the same set of feelings? Did we use a dominant view when judging changing situations? And if the same feelings appeared in certain contexts, obviously linked or indicating to each other, than, was there something like a dynamic system of feelings?

The zombies, of all creatures, pushed me to enter in the mysterious world of feelings, and to make its map.

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Smith, A.         The Theory of Moral Sentiments