There is a certain subset of the emotions, quite small but fairly distinctive that are inflected as soul emotions. These are associated with Romanticism from its origins until its closure in Decadence, and have a distinctly gnostic flavour, without entailing its theology. Yearning, homesickness, the sense of exile, mysterious resonances with nature etc. Emotions, perhaps does not go far enough, there is also a set of aesthetic preferences. After the formal end of Romanticism these continue to exert their effects, but in fragmented form and intermixed with the other non-soulful emotions. Now it is the distinction between these classes that is most relevant, their different modes of attachment, and the ability to discriminate between them.