Emotions--fleeting, insubstantial, changeable, and ambiguous--seem to defy study and analysis

Introduction: Studying Emotion; One: Differing Views of Emotion; One: Classical and Contemporary Theories; Two: A New Conception of Emotion and Social Interaction; Two: Emotionality, Self, and Interaction; Three: Essence of Emotional Experience; Four: Emotion as Individual Experience; Five: Emotion as Social Experience; Three: Two Studies of Problematic Emotionality; Six: Family Violence; Seven: The Divided Self; Conclusion: Reflections on Emotion