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Epicurus in the ancient world, and later Jeremy Bentham, laid stress upon the role of pleasure in directing human life, the latter stating: "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure". [4] Freud's most immediate predecessor and guide however was Gustav Theodor Fechner and his psychophysics. [5]
Beyond this limit, pleasure then becomes pain, before this, initial "painful principle" develops into what Jacques Lacan called jouissance; [2] it is suffering, epitomized in Lacan's remark about "the recoil imposed on everyone, in so far as it involves terrible promises, by the approach of jouissance as such".
55 Chronic Pain Quotes. 1. "You can't go through life allowing pain to dictate how you behave. It's easy to sit here in your bedroom and wallow in your hurt feelings. It's hard to rise above it."
Some theorists formulate hedonism in terms of happiness rather than pleasure and pain. According to a common interpretation, happiness is the balance of pleasure over pain. This means that a person is happy if they have more pleasure than pain and unhappy if the balance is overall negative. [44]
88. “Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.” — Deepak Chopra. 89. “That’s the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can’t ...
50 Voltaire Quotes. iStock. 1. “Better is the enemy of good.” ... 38. “Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart ...
Not only have Siri Leknes and Irene Tracey, two neuroscientists who study pain and pleasure, concluded that pain and reward processing involve many of the same regions of the brain, but also that the functional relationship lies in that pain decreases pleasure and rewards increase analgesia, which is the relief from pain. [8]
However the Marquis de Sade offered a wholly different view – which is that pain itself has an ethics, and that pursuit of pain, or imposing it, may be as useful and just as pleasurable, and that this indeed is the purpose of the state – to indulge the desire to inflict pain in revenge, for instance, via the law (in his time most punishment ...