Among the classics in symbolic interactionism we find A. Smith, C. H. Cooley and G. H. Mead. Smith is commonly remembered for his idea of the invisible hand, rather than his ideas on sympathy or moral sentiments; Cooley for his idea of the looking-glass self, in the sense of self-reflection, rather than self-feeling; and Mead for how we through attitude-taking become selves with minds, rather than with emotions. In this paper Mead’s thinking on self-identity is perceived from a perspective that focuses on emotion. Especially, Mead’s idea on emotional experiences as felt inhibitions of our interchanges with others is examined. As a result, a systematization of the logic behind Mead’s theory of the evolving self is presented. Three distinct forms of Mead’s most well-known notion – taking the attitude or role of the other – come to the forefront: (1) bodily identification, (2) self-feeling, and (3) self-reflection. Examining Mead’s symbolic interactionism from a perspective that focuses on emotion, especially, emotional experience, I whish to bring the body and the emotions back into the field of symbolic interactionsim. More importantly, the aim is to suggest an understanding of body and emotion as social.