ABSTRACT
First 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |8 pages
Part I
chapter |7 pages
Introductory
part II|62 pages
Sensory Pleasure and Unpleasure
chapter Chapter I|4 pages
The Question Stated
chapter Chapter II|24 pages
The Special Senses and the General Bodily Process
chapter Chapter III|22 pages
The Theory of Sensory Unpleasure
chapter Chapter IV|11 pages
Summary of Results
part III|168 pages
Pleasure and Unpleasure in Relation to the Main Instincts
chapter Chapter I|9 pages
Instincts of Nutrition and Bodily Maintenance
chapter Chapter II|9 pages
The Reproductive Instincts
chapter Chapter III|26 pages
Curiosity, Or the Impulse to Knowledge
chapter Chapter IV|37 pages
The Impulse to Power
chapter Chapter V|49 pages
Altruism and the Gregarious Instinct
chapter Chapter VI|9 pages
Summary and Classification of the Human Instincts
chapter Chapter VII|13 pages
The Relation of Feeling to the Instincts
chapter Chapter VIII|15 pages
The Æsthetic Experience. Play
part IV|26 pages
The Psychological Nature of Pleasure and Unpleasure in Comparison with Sensation
part V|30 pages
Pleasure and Desire. Other Corollaries. Ideo-Motor Action. The Relativity of Feelings
part VI|40 pages
Other Kinds of Feeling. The Psychology of Values
