Despair is a negatively colored feeling that arises in relation to an object that demonstrates qualities or behavior that the subject does not allow himself to demonstrate, since he perceives them socially unacceptable. Contempt is associated with a sense of superiority. In addition, it easily turns into anger, anger , rage and even generates hatred if the object of contempt becomes a significant obstacle to meeting the needs of the subject.
The word arose between 1350-1400 years from the Latin contemptus (despise).
Contempt is included in seven basic emotions. emanated by Paul Ekman (contempt, anger, disgust, fear, happiness, surprise, sadness) [1] . Feeling has a number of features: it requires a certain judgment regarding a phenomenon or object. A contemptible person can classify a despised object as not conforming to interpersonal standards, thus showing disrespect. This feeling also has a comparative category: the despiser is at some psychological distance from the despised object, is not identified with him and excludes possible sympathy, according to David Hume [2] . The positive aspect of such a feeling as contempt is that you can cause it to unethical and immoral phenomena and thus remove them from a society that obeys certain rules of morality [3] .
See also
- Peiorato
Notes
- ↑ Paul Ekman, Karl G. Heider. The universality of a contempt expression: A replication (Eng.) // Motivation and Emotion. - 1988-09-01. - Vol. 12 , iss. 3 . - P. 303-308 . - ISSN 1573-6644 . - DOI : 10.1007 / BF00993116 .
- ↑ Macalester Bell. A Woman's Scorn: Toward a Feminist Defense of Contempt as a Moral Emotion // Hypatia. - 2005. - Vol. 20 , iss. 4 . - P. 80–93 . - ISSN 1527-2001 . - DOI : 10.1111 / j.1527-2001.2005.tb00537.x .
- ↑ Bell, Macalester. Hard feelings: the moral psychology of contempt . - New York: Oxford University Press, 2013 .-- 1 online resource (xi, 292 pages) p. - ISBN 9780199794256 , 0199794251, 0199332622, 9780199332625.