The History of Emotion: Were feelings always felt this way?

Podcast: God Forbid · ABC Australia

Opublikowano: 2026-07-24

If you hit your finger with a hammer, would you feel it the same way a medieval carpenter did, doing exactly the same thing? Well, apparently not. We think of our feelings as the most private and immediate things we own. Hit your thumb, and YOU know pain when YOU feel it. But historians of emotion say that's a modern conceit. Pain, grief, love, loneliness — none of them are fixed. They're made, by religion, by culture and science, and most of all by the stories we tell each other about wha...