Pain, pleasure and æsthetics : an essay concerning the psychology of pain and pleasure, with special reference to æsthetics / by Henry Rutgers Marshall.

  • Henry Rutgers Marshall
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1894
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    Part II. Positive Esthetic Laws § 1. The problem before us here is to discover the means necessary to the production of a pleasure field whkh shall he relatively permanent. It will be convenient in our discussion to treat separately (1st) the production of pleasure itself, before considering (2nd) the means used to the attainment of permanency of pleasure field. I In what has preceded this we have seen that all pleasure is dependent upon the rise into consciousness of contents which are coincidents of action in well-prepared organs; i.e. that pleasure occurs whenever the stimulus affecting an organ occasions the use of surplus stored force. From this theory we may make the following deductions: Pleasure arises— A. When there appears in consciousness a content which has before a]§peared but which has been lately absent, because no stimulus to its production has arisen. B. When a content appears after inhibition of its normal appearance. C. When a content appears with unusual vividness after normal absence from consciousness. [In physiological terms these propositions may be stated as follows .—Storage of force is attained by rest from actmty. i he preparation to act efficiently involves time; recuperative pro- Ss are in the main less rapid than are those involved wlien action takes place in answer to a stimulus rom without All organs, however, have surplus power which is not brought into activity under normal conditions, but which may be brought in o use under hypernormal stimulus with only normal nutntive conditions. It Appears, therefore, that the use of stored force 'i'y;he'stimulation of organs, which having been long rested have gained great potential efficiency, so that a stimulus.
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