This article is focused on emotions specifically, not the more general topic of 'feelings' as indicated in the title, and the central point is to make us wonder how we know whether an emotion we have is or is not genuine (and, indeed, what we even mean by a 'genuine' emotion). For example, we sometimes feel emotions that conflict with who we think we are. "Some emotions, like my fear of the mouse, can catch us completely off guard because they conflict with who we take ourselves to be. Call these alienated emotions." Are we really like that? "We have no way to know immediately which of our emotions are authentic - which ones tell us something about ourselves and which ones don't."
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