Abstract:
This article reflects on emotion as an internal state caused by external forces that can
result in mood disturbance. It traces the shift from affect to feeling to emotion to mood,
following Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803) to Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–
1834) to William James (1842–1910) to Donald Capps (1939-) as mileposts. It reflects
on the phenomena of homophobia/heterosexism and heteronormativity as ideological
climate and concludes with a proposal for healing the unhealed wound of sexual
minorities.
