Emotion and Expression

Robert Solomon notes the familiar experience of emotions that intensify ” as we express them,” adding that this requires explanation “since Freudian theory and most psychological theories since seem to think that emotions are ‘ventilated’ through expression and intensified through suppression.”

Is this perhaps another sign of the overwhelming impact of courtly notions of love on the Western soul? Is psychology perhaps just a latter-day theory of courtly love, dressed in scientific garb?