Abstract
19th century's concept of mind referred to a great extent to body. This was due to (1) methodological background of natural science and (2) general cultural atmosphere in which science (not yet much stratified) played an important role.
Emotions represent a specific domain in psychology, touching different phenomena including art and music. 19th century's psychology (despite the existence of psychophysical parallelism) understood mind and body as inseparable elements of human life. It was only the 20th century's psychology that definitely separated mind from body.
And it again asked about the relation between the two even later. Thus, concepts of emotion and other psychical phenomena from the 19th century often seem to us very progressive and foreseeing.
The example of Jan Evangelista Purkyně shows that the Czech psychology of 19th century was in no sense behind the world's science.