Richard Firth-Godbehere

Linked closely to emotional regimes is something called emotional labor. This term has been expanded to mean almost anything, from merely being polite to being the person in the household (usually a woman) who performs emotion-related tasks, such as sending birthday cards and keeping the house clean to impress the visiting neighbors.

In other words, emotional labor is the effort required to stay within an emotional regime.

The Greeks called emotions pathē, meaning “experience” or “suffering.”