External inducements can generate genuine emotional bonds where none existed

Evidence

The natural emotional tie between mother and child should make her wish to keep it, but obviously does not always. Yet, if she can be swayed to do so even for a while, if only for external reasons, to secure the advantage of that temporary subsidy, this external relationship creates its own emotional underpinning. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9158

Categorization

• FICTION: A character who only performs a relationship for external gain but finds the performance manufactures real feeling — courtship, custody, arranged roles that backfire into authenticity.
• XREF: connects to: Emotional capitalism exploits emotions’ fleeting performativity, which feelings lack — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 98; Emotions can be deliberately engineered and late capitalist industries run a captured emotional engineering — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1990