Pleasure And Instinct

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.

A H Burlton Allen

Part 1 Pleasure & Instinct; Introductory; Part 2 Sensory Pleasure and Unpleasure; Chapter 1 The Question Stated; Chapter 2 The Special Senses and the General Bodily Process; Chapter 3 The Theory of Sensory Unpleasure; Chapter 4 Summary of Results; Part 3 Pleasure and Unpleasure in Relation to the Main Instincts; Chapter 5 Instincts of Nutrition and Bodily Maintenance; Chapter 6 The Reproductive Instincts; Chapter 7 Curiosity, Or the Impulse to Knowledge; Chapter 8 The Impulse to Power; Chapter 9 Altruism and the Gregarious Instinct; Chapter 10 Summary and Classification of the Human Instincts; Chapter 11 The Relation of Feeling to the Instincts; Chapter 12 The Æsthetic Experience. PlayPart 4 The Psychological Nature of Pleasure and Unpleasure in Comparison with SensationPart 5 Pleasure and Desire. Other Corollaries. Ideo-Motor Action. The Relativity of FeelingsPart 6 Other Kinds of Feeling. The Psychology of Values;