There is a tone that we must rise above our bestiality and infantilism. Victorians and Stoics certainly distrusted emotions. Since Carl Lange thought of it around the same time it became known as the James-Lange theory of emotion. James stressed the embodiment of emotions-the physical sensations such as heartbeat. Thus our bodies are telling us something and bringing the emotion to consciousness.
Emotions affect and color our experience.
He used case studies to show how events, generally sexual in origin, can leave psychological scars. Generally these scars were called neuroses-the problem with the nerves. He didn't want to do hypnosis since they were in the Alps, so he asked her about her attacks and he suggested that she must have experienced something very embarrassing. Freud after a few days asks her about her disgust. She said she had reported the event to her aunt which resulted in a verbal conflict.