More or less stable or static feeling is a proxy for the personal self. It represents an element taken to be uniquely determined and sovereign, but itself is eminently substitutable. Emotion or emotional state is different, it is a binding associated with the personal self. There is a constraint to repeat certain patterns of thought, the repetition being conditioned by an inseparable component of feeling, the thought being a figure in time like a musical motif, having affective form but with specific cognitive content, or rather discursive content. Most of the feeling in an emotional state arises from aspects of binding or loosening as interdependent complementaries. The context is the unfreedom of will, the constraint on inner action as instanced here in thought. The subject is uninvolved, merely witnessing, since bondage does not predicate it, nor, by the same token, does thought or feeling. It allows the operation of experiencing to seem to complete itself, and above all of emotion in experiencing. The being bound is an essential attribute of the personal self; there is no escape from bondage for this self because it is bondage with all its vicissitudes, including the delightful and the ennobling ones. This self remains out of view while the thoughts are like its children or pets, fondly, partially, warmly, lovingly and ironically enjoyed.