Assignments

I.Suggest the Ukrainian equivalents of the words and phrases below:

to diminish our feeling in order to diminish the amount of emotional pain; unintended side effect; to reduce the amount of pleasure; to originate in the brain; to be sensitive; to suppress emotions and feeling; a major contributing factor in causing diseases; with the help of electric signals; driving force.

II. Find English equivalents to the following words phrases:

за допомогою електричних сигналів; визначати хід подій; відреагувати відразу; поводитись, як робот; втрачати почуття та емоції; енергія злості; забезпечити найбільшим задоволенням у житті.

III. Answer the questions:

1. Why are our feelings and emotions the driving force of life?

2. What emotions do people feel being young / old?

3. What do feelings provide us with?

4. What reduces the amount of pleasure that we can feel?

Text 2. How do We Loose Our Feelings?

The widespread emotional misery in our society has much to do with our diminished capacity for feelings, especially for tender, loving feelings. If at all, we seem to experience these only for a short period in our life when we fall in love and then yearn for them ever after.

The repression of our feelings has much to do with the male inspired cultural priority placed on the intellect in our society with a corresponding contempt for soft and tender feelings that are regarded as feminine. It is easier to gain power, to dominate and build an empire if one is not hindered by sentimental feelings. With their present bid for equal power, even many women cannot afford any more to be vulnerable and they steel themselves against feminine softness.

In addition, self-control is highly valued, especially in the Anglo-Saxon culture. We are not supposed to show anger or even displeasure but rather be outwardly polite while we may boil inside. Only in recent years has it become more acceptable to show tenderness in public, but even so, cuddling and touching, except in a ceremonial way, are still largely constricted to those who identify with the 'New Age Movement'. Conventional members of our society are as rigid and inhibited as ever.

We may say that our emotional dilemma arises from two sources. One is the suppression of our feelings enforced by the standards of our society and the other is the lack of role models for the development of tender feelings in our childhood.

Assignments

I. Suggest the Ukrainian equivalents of the words and phrases below:

emotional misery; diminished capacity for feeling; repression of feelings; to be hindered by sentimental feelings; to be vulnerable; to steel one selves against feminine softness; to be outwardly polite; to show tenderness in public; lack of role models; development of tender feelings.

IІ. Find English equivalents to the following words and phrases from the text:

плекати ніжні почуття; самоконтроль високо цінується; демонструвати ніжні почуття на людях; дозволити собі бути уразливим, ранимим; емоційні переживання; показувати гнів та незадоволення; втрачати почуття.

III. Answer the questions:

1. What did emotional misery in our society result in?

2. Why cannot women afford to be vulnerable?

3. What is the repression of feeling in our society connected with ?

4. Has it become more acceptable to show tenderness in public?

5. What do feelings provide us with?

6. What sources does emotional dilemma arise from?

IV. Choose the fact to prove that:

1. Suppression of a human’s feelings starts when he is trained not to cry when he is unhappy.

2. Without feelings and emotions we would be like robots.

3. Feelings and emotions provide us with the greatest pleasures of life.

4. We should not let our feelings down.