Isos

Freud reckons that the two primary emotions (his idea) that the id uses to motivate our bodies (my idea), via the ego, are Eros and Hadeos. Love and hate.

Freud says all other emotions are built on these. Probably in the same way that all colors are built on the primaries. I guess the intensity of the emotions is just contrast; black and white.

Antidepressants generally suppress both Eros and Hadeos which is a pretty useless outcome.

The developed super-ego attempts to suppress the influence of Hadeos without losing Eros.

That’s bloody hard. Which is why it is taking millennia of evolution to achieve.

I have a suspicion that there might be one more primary emotion. This would better explain the huge color range of emotions and nature does tend to replicate itself in these sort of patterns. It’s probably “live” – the desire or will of the individual to not die and continue living.

The best name I can come up with for this emotion is Isos, after Isis.

If I cycle though all the emotions in my head I can easily construct them from Eros, Hadeos and Isos.

In this, it is important to recall that emotions aren’t “real”. They are just one way that the id controls the physical – the other being direct instinctive action. Emotions are a means to an end; part of continuous process improvement in evolution.