my Spanish prof once taught us the phrase "nunca digas de este agua no beberé, ni este cura no es mi padre" -- "never say you won't drink from that water, or that the priest is not your dad." And we all kinda laughed, like "when will I ever need to say THAT?", and now I always do

there's a type of thought that's... partly-analytical, partly-emotional observations about the human experience, that I've never known a name for and struggled to find in academia or popular non-fiction. Emotions or social experiences, as a subject matter in and of themselves? But not in the social science way, just... individuals observing their experiences of those things and treating them analytically but with emotional awareness?