Basic Emotion Theory

The neuroscience of sadness: A multidisciplinary synthesis and collaborative review.

When I go musing all alone, Thinking of divers things fore-known, When I build castles in the air, Void of sorrow and void of fear, Pleasing myself with phantasms sweet, Methinks the time runs very fleet. All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as Melancholy. - “A dialogue between pleasure and pain” (Burton, 1857).