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A Mood (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a feeling that no longer expresses the person but alters the ego — the self split into as many states as situations.

A Mood (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a valuation not of one thing but of the whole conscious situation at the moment — a feeling cut loose from its object.

A Mood (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠spoils a whole day, the stray fantasy, the vague dread of secret disease — usually blamed on the body, usually perceptions of unconscious processes.

A Mood (n.) must ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be made your object instead of becoming the dominating subject in you — the opposite of succumbing to it, and a hard achievement.

A Mood (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to be entered, not escaped: sink into it without reserve and write down every fantasy it produces, until the unrelated affect becomes an articulate idea.

Mood (n.) make ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a man as many persons as he has moods — “a fool is changed as the moon” — so the one who thinks himself one is not one.

A Mood (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠something we feel responsible for making — a recent prejudice: no one blames himself for a cancer.

Mood (n.) shift ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠constantly while the unconscious is being assimilated, because the personality passes through many changes that show it in different lights, signs of a coming birth.