This series of tables features the main emotions discussed in PTP Step 4. Other emotions will be treated in subsequent works on other Steps. Except for resentment, the emotions listed are not necessarily defective. They become defective when, under the influence of our defects of character, our concerns and/or the perceptions of how those concerns are affected, become distorted. Those defects and distortions are the subjects of our inventory. For a discussion of each emotion, the underlying character defects, and their corrective character virtues, see the corresponding chapters in the book and, as they become available, the posts under Emotional Sobriety on this site. For an accompanying table of character defects, see Appendix 4 on this site. The tables are intended to help us take inventory using the guides to Inventory Type A and/or B. For a post on anger on this website, please click on link.
Anger | |
Definition | Anger is the perception of an offense to something we care about and the consequent desire to punish the offender. See Resentment below. |
Related | Related to perception of offense: Abuse, affront, aggression, assault, aspersion, attack, blame, breach, culpability, crime, dereliction, disobedience, disrespect, encroachment, failure, fault, favoritism, guilt, harm, hurt, indignity, inequity, infraction, infringement, injury, injustice, insult, interference, intrusion, malpractice, maltreatment, misconduct, misdeed, misbehavior, nagging, neglect, outrage, pester, provocation, put-down, rudeness, slight, slur, snub, transgression, trespass, unfairness, unjustness, violation, wrongdoing Related to feelings and emotions: acrimony, agitation, aggravation, animosity, animus, annoyance, antagonism, apoplectic, blow up, boiling, bothered, bristle, burning, cantankerous, chafe, choleric, cross, disgruntled, distemper, enmity, envy, enraged, exasperation, ferocity, fit, frustration, fuming, furor, fury, galling, grouchiness, grumpiness, hate, hatred, hissy fit, fuming, fury, hostility, hysterical, ill humor, ill temper, impatience, incensed, indignation, inflamed, infuriated, injury, irascibility, ire, irk, irritability, irritation, jealousy, mad, maddened, miffed, nettle, odium, outburst, outrage, paroxysm, peeve, peevishness, petulance, pique, rage, rampage, rankling, raving mad, resentment, rile, roil, scorn, seething, soreness, sour, spite, steamed up, stew, stirred up, sullenness, tantrum, temper, temper tantrum, tenseness, tiff, tizzy, umbrage, uproar, upset, vexation, whipped up, withdrawn, worked up, wrath |
Underlying | Aggressiveness, impatience, ingratitude, injustice, intemperance, intolerance, pride, unacceptance, unforgiveness, unkindness |
Corrective | Acceptance, compassion, forgiveness, gratitude, humility, justice, kindness, patience, peacefulness, temperance, tolerance |
For other emotions, please click on the appropriate link: Anxiety, Fear, Guilt, Remorse, Resentment