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Emotions

The Science of Emotion

  • What Are Emotions?

The Positive Emotions

  • Happiness
  • Love

The Fear Family

  • Fear
  • Anxiety
  • Insecurity

The Anger Family

  • Anger

The Self-Conscious Emotions

  • Shame and Guilt
  • Pride
  • Envy
  • Jealousy

Longing and Desire

  • Desire, Attachment & Revenge
  • Lust
  • Melancholy
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Emotions

Longing and Desire

Desire, lust, and melancholy — emotions organized around absence, wanting, and the bittersweet awareness of what passes.

3 chapters

Chapters

  1. 12

    Desire, Attachment & Revenge

    How desire and fear are two sides of the same coin, the Buddhist case for non-attachment, and why revenge consumes the person who carries it.

    7 min
  2. 13

    Lust

    Lust is an intense craving beyond need, and how it differs from passion.

    4 min
  3. 14

    Melancholy

    Why sadness can be sweet, why humans seek it in music and art, and the untranslatable words for longing that every culture has invented.

    6 min
© 2026 Sourabh. All writing is my own.
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