emotion: humanities friend of foe?

I'm not at all sure of the differences and relations between feelings and emotions. I do, however, tend to think (right now as a working hypothesis) of feelings as body sensations which are given meaning when developed into language/idea-grounded emotions. When I feel fear it is usually in the form of butterflies in the stomach area and anger is usually felt as a burning sensation in my nose area (almost like the sensation caused by wasabi). Sometimes I cannot know precisely what I am emoting but I can usually tell what my body is feeling. Identifying its emotional correlate is another matter. Am I wrong to conclude that feelings are usually conscious or preconscious while emotions are predominantly (but not always) subconscious in nature?

JLN

I think we need to discriminate between "detached passivity" and " concerned passivity". The first is a-temporal and transcends the logicality of "IF-THEN". The second is not and therefore comes under the logicality banner.

To me, emotions are mainly (but not exclusively) what life is about. They are the foundation for my social and artistic existence--what else is there but the purely animalic dimension? Logic has a purely organizing function: logic is more like anatomy; emotion is more like physiology. In the morgue we see anatomies but no physiologies.

unless they died with a smile on their face!