An Emotion Without A Name
We can feel emotions without having a name for them.
We feel these things even as we struggle for ways to communicate them to others. These are emotions on the cusp of being known, aspects of our individual experiences even though they don’t yet have a socially-recognized label.
This space of emerging emotion was revealed to me recently by my daughter in reaction to an episode of the breakthrough television show The Last Of Us, a well-received series that’s was based on a groundbreaking video game. She described her emotional reaction to the craft of the storytelling as a combination of joy and fury.