In Transactional Analysis there is something called “racket” (not mentioned on its Wikipedia page), a concept that people have their habitual emotion… not meaning that they like it or approve of it, just that for many things that happen they will find an excuse to translate them to that emotion.
As usual, the psychoanalytical explanation is that your parents paid to you attention in childhood when you exhibited that emotion, and ignored you when you exhibited other emotions. Thus, converting every experience to given emotion is how you unconsciously pay for being paid attention to.
In Transactional Analysis there is something called “racket” (not mentioned on its Wikipedia page), a concept that people have their habitual emotion… not meaning that they like it or approve of it, just that for many things that happen they will find an excuse to translate them to that emotion.
As usual, the psychoanalytical explanation is that your parents paid to you attention in childhood when you exhibited that emotion, and ignored you when you exhibited other emotions. Thus, converting every experience to given emotion is how you unconsciously pay for being paid attention to.