A New Step towards a Comprehensive Theory of Affectivity-The Necessity of Starting from a Predominantly Stable System

Abstract

In this article we begin by exposing the methodological option, chosen on this occasion in the study of human affectivity; that is, the systemic one. Although, as we said in our previous article, we do not refer to interpersonal relationships as a system or as interaction, we refer to the fact that the mechanisms of the affective way of perceiving and conceiving the world can and should we contemplate as a system. That is to say, our methodology of systemic and intrapersonal. Once we have established which systemic methodology we employ, we delve into the cyclical nature of the affective way of knowing, its sequentially and the type of memory on which it is based.

Finally, we analyze the peculiarities of each of the stages of the affective cycle, its dysfunctionalities and possible ways to correct them. In other words, we see affectivity from the point of view of basic psychology, not from that of social or clinical psychology; although we perceive that, with this approach, a multitude of therapeutic or didactic possibilities open up, which will have to be developed.