It is important for our daily navigation to know, when and if it is necessary and appropriate to show feelings. We experience and learn from other cultures that showing feelings may elicit very different reactions. This causes both practical problems and an uncertainty of what feelings are and for what they are meant.

It is important for our daily navigation to know, when and if it is necessary and appropriate to show feelings. We experience and learn from other cultures that showing feelings may elicit very different reactions. This causes both practical problems and an uncertainty of what feelings are and for what they are meant.

Pain itself is a complex sensoric impression and hence ruled by laws of basic sciences and medicine. In parallel, convictions, personal self-perception and cultural background do influence the individual feeling of pain. The lecture aims to bridge a broad view of the problem by broaching the issues of physiology of pain to experiences of pain and their expression in arts and literature

Pain itself is a complex sensoric impression and hence ruled by laws of basic sciences and medicine. In parallel, convictions, personal self-perception and cultural background do influence the individual feeling of pain. The lecture aims to bridge a broad view of the problem by broaching the issues of physiology of pain to experiences of pain and their expression in arts and literature

The expression of emotions, be it intentionally or not, is among the eldest forms of communication. By facial expression, gesture, tone and posture our emotions are transmitted to others. These facts open a wide fields of social manipulation, where we may play both roles of subject and object.

The expression of emotions, be it intentionally or not, is among the eldest forms of communication. By facial expression, gesture, tone and posture our emotions are transmitted to others. These facts open a wide fields of social manipulation, where we may play both roles of subject and object.