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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: za. Feeling and Excitement. One point in the demarcation of feeling is so important that it must be specially considered forthwith. It is said that pleasure and pain as defined above do not exhaust all that we mean by feeling, that in addition to these opposed modes there is a third mode, viz., neutral feeling or bare, colourless excitement. Thus it is said that the primitive experience of shock, which later develops into the feeling of surprise or wonder, is an example of such a neutral or indifferent feeling. The determination of this point is one of the cruces in psychology. Without attempting an exhaustive discussion of it, one may suggest that the term excitement here covers two distinct things. It is used, first of all, to denote mere intensity and range or amplitude of presentative or ideational element. Thus a loud sound merely as occasioning an unusually intense auditory sensation, together with secondary effects in the shape of a rush of ideas, may be called exciting without reference to the specific variety of experience known as feeling. But, in the second place, it may be said that no known mode of excitement is absolutely colourless, and that the meaning of the term as commonly employed has reference to the properly affective element which enters into it. Much of what we call excitement is distinctly pleasurable, as is seen in the use of the expression love of excitement, and in people's eagerness in the pursuit of it. Other forms, e.g., a sudden shock, are, as sudden and confusing, distinctly disagreeable. Lastly, it must not be forgotten that states of feeling are rarely pure pleasures or pure pains. The complexity of our mental life produces a constant intermingling of affective elements. Thus a surprise is commonly at once disagreeable and agreeable: disag...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217350846 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217350844 |
| Weight | 1.64 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.14 In |
| List Price | $25.69 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 512 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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