 Another important distinction is between an expression and a discharge of emotion. All expression involves discharge, but only a particular kind of discharge counts as expression. Dewey insists that someone who simply acts angrily is not expressing anger. Mere “giving way” to impulsion does not constitute expression. The goal of expression is not to get rid of the initial emotion, as is the case with screams that merely discharge emotion, but to achieve a clearer sense of its content and significance. For Dewey, expression means “to stay by, to carry forward in development, to work out to completion” (AE: 67–68). For an emotional discharge to turn into expression in Dewey’s sense also requires an external channel for releasing and working on the emotive energy of the background impulsion. Dewey writes: 