Editing Pity (section)

==Psychological opinions==
Psychologists see pity arising in early [[childhood]] out of the infant's ability to identify with others.<ref>{{cite book|first=D.|last=Goleman|title=Emotional Intelligence|location=London|year=1995|pages=98–99}}</ref>

[[Psychoanalysis]] sees a more convoluted route to (at least some forms of) adult pity by way of the sublimation of [[aggression]]—pity serving as a kind of magic gesture intended to show how leniently one should oneself be treated by one's own conscience.<ref>{{cite book|first=O.|last=Fenichel|title=The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis|location=London|year=1946|page=476}}</ref>
[[File:Den Leichnam des Darius.jpg|thumb|right|Alexander sees with a look of pity that Darius has died from his wounds.]]
[[File:Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy L, 1795 (Yale Center for British Art) The Human Abstract.jpg|thumb|upright|''[[The Human Abstract (poem)|The Human Abstract]]'', a poem in William Blake's collection ''[[Songs of Innocence and of Experience]]'', in which he proclaims "Pity would be no more, / If we did not make somebody Poor" (1–2). This version is copy L created in 1795 and currently held by the [[Yale Center for British Art]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.blakearchive.org/copy/songsie.b?descId=songsie.b.illbk.38| title = Songs of Innocence and of Experience|postscript=, copy L, object 47 (Bentley 47, Erdman 47, Keynes 47)|chapter=The Human Abstract |first=William|last=Blake| publisher = [[William Blake Archive]]}}</ref>]]