Abstract

Under some circumstances the psychological conceptualization of emotion as distinctively intrapsychic phenomenon may not be productive. If we premise in hasty way the universal characteristics of emotional experiences, such efforts would be more confusing. In order to overcome the poverty of modern psychology in understanding the psychology of emotion, it would be helpful to consider emotion as a cultural experience. In this sense "Cheong" can be regarded as an interesting example of the cultural emotion. What underlies such cultural experiences is always the intersubjective experiences of emotion. In other words, the unit of cultural experiences should be always intersubjective. Otherwise it would not be easy to differentiate the cultural experiences, like "Cheong", from emotional experiences of individual which are regarded as basic emotions in the academic psychology. But it is still unclear how the intersubjective emotion can be developed into cultural experiences. In this study it is discussed how such concepts like "affect attunement", "mimetic activity" can serve to explain the relationship between intersubjective experiences of emotion and cultural experiences.