Pleasure and Instinct: A Study in the Psychology of Human ActionFirst Published in 1999. This is Volume I of ten in the Physiological Psychology series. Written in 1930, this book is an attempt to define the nature of feeling, that which in ordinary language is called pleasure and pain, or in more technically psychological terms the affective side of the 'mental life. |
Contents
PART | 1 |
PART II | 9 |
THE THEORY OF SENSORY UNPLEASURE | 38 |
SUMMARY OF RESULTS | 60 |
PLEASURE AND UNPLEASURE IN RELATION TO | 71 |
REPRODUCTIVE INSTINCTS | 81 |
CURIOSITY OR THE IMPULSE TO KNOWLEDGE 00 | 90 |
THE IMPULSE TO POWER | 116 |
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Pleasure And Instinct: A STUDY IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN ACTION Allen, A H Burlton Limited preview - 2013 |
Pleasure And Instinct: A STUDY IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN ACTION Allen, A H Burlton Limited preview - 2013 |
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