In every individual we see that feelings have grown and developed in the direction and to the degree which were essential1 to the attainment of his goal. His anxiety or courage, cheerfulness or sadness, have always agreed with his style of life: their proportionate strength and dominace has been exactly what we could expect. A man who aplishes his goal of superiority by sadness cannot be gay and satisfied with his aplishments. He can only be happy when he is miserable. We can notice also that feelings appear and disappear at need. A patient suffering from agoraphobia2 loses the feeling of anxiety when he is at home or when he is dominating another person. All neurotic patients exclude every part of life in which they do not feel strong enough to be the conqueror.
The emotional tone is as fixed as the style of life. The coward, for example, is always a coward, even though he is arrogant with weaker people or