Pain and Pleasure: A Study of Bodily Feelings

· Syracuse University Press
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Ebook
348
Pages

About this ebook

In this work Dr. Szasz dispels popular and scientific confusion about what pain and pleasure actually are. Demonstrating the doubtful value of such distinctions as “real” and Imagined” pain, or “physical” and “intellectual” pleasure, he analyses the basic concepts-psychological, philosophical, and sociological-involved in bodily feelings and discusses how these feelings are communicated. Some of the subjects discussed in Pain and Pleasure include: self-mutilation, sexual satisfaction, “hysterical anesthesia,” false pregnancy, laughter, homosexuality, and dream analysis.

Ratings and reviews

5.0
1 review
A Google user
January 8, 2012
Amazing insights regarding the convergences of feelings.....and how we have chosen to deal with them as humans, humanity, physical, psychological, subjective, objective, social, personal, community and human rights. Worth reading at least twice.

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