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In this text we will reflect on the emotional pain of university professors and their possible connections with the training processes, presupposing that they have the potential to signal the recovery of the idea of human nature and can contribute to the process of reconfiguring these pains. The support of our reflections comes from Antonio Damásio's neuroscientific investigations to whom the relations between the feelings of pain and pleasure influence the human cultural process. It also collaborates with our thinking Baruch Espinosa whose ideas underpinned those of Damásio's neuroscience when he affirmed that human beings affect each other and through this meeting they can recognize themselves and increase their power to act. In order to carry out the reflections proposed here, we used the hermeneutics of the tragedy "As Bacantes" by Euripides (406 BC) whose metaphorical potential helps us to understand the difficulties imposed by a rationality proclaimed as the only possible one. The reflective analyses, evidenced in this text, lead us to glimpse the need for other teaching knowledge that perceive the experience in a sensitive and humanized way. They contribute to the understanding of aspects that should go beyond the current ones and broaden the vision about professional training. Even in view of the detail and scope of the proposals currents for categorizing the teaching knowledge necessary for professionalization, this shortage regarding the teachers' emotional pain persists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]