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The Relationship Between the Inner Speech and Emotions: Revisiting the Study of Passions in Psychology

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This article tries to deepen in the Vygotsky’s interfunctional analysis between the affections and the thought, with the purpose of finding the unit of analysis that captures the intersection between the affective and the other functions of cognition, thus completing a Vygotskyan theory of emotions. In this article, we have called that dimension the sense. Sense constitutes the meeting point and the unit of analysis of thought and emotions. The experience of sense is partly affective and cognitive and has not been incorporated into the research that has studied the relationship between affects and other functions of cognition.

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This article has been supported by the postdoctoral project no. 3180117 of the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT) of Chile.

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  1. Faculty of Psychology, Universidad del Desarrollo, Av. La Plaza 680, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile

    Pablo Fossa & Camila Muñoz Marcotti

  2. Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy, Universidad de Ciego de Ávila, Ciego de Ávila, Cuba

    Raymond Madrigal Pérez

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Fossa, P., Pérez, R.M. & Marcotti, C.M. The Relationship Between the Inner Speech and Emotions: Revisiting the Study of Passions in Psychology. Hu Arenas 3, 229–246 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-019-00079-5

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