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that you dull your capacity for happiness and pleasure while not really avoiding the dreaded unhappiness in 89 EMOTIONAL GROWTH AND ITS FUNCTION
a role; whether there is a desire for pleasure supreme that cannot be attained through healthy means 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
desire will rather be to procure all the pleasure this life contains by making your soul as 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
acquiring thereby the ability for happiness, love and pleasure. Super-states of euphoria usually avoid all that. If 91 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
that it has no variation, no individuality, humor, pleasure, and wit. You ascribe all that to badness 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
as badness. Only it has more humor, individuality, pleasure, because in health and maturity -- which amounts 94 SIN AND NEUROSIS -- UNIFYING THE INNER SPLIT
fulfill implies your inferiority. Fear of frustration of pleasure is not so acute because you cannot live 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
and experience such factors as success, responsibility and pleasure in their reality will increase, and you will 95 SELF-ALIENATION AND THE WAY BACK TO THE REAL SELF
stronger than the corresponding healthy forces, the only pleasure derived from living is found in pain. I 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
does not want to give it up. Healthy pleasure seems hopelessly unattainable. In other words, masochism is 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
his right to live, love, and to have pleasure -- masochism is the result. The world seems 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
give in, agreeing with the world, and make pleasure out of pain in a very wrong, unhealthy 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
deeper, I discovered that, in reality, sex is pleasure. So I found that for me pleasure is 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
is pleasure. So I found that for me pleasure is a crime. And so, all along, I 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
crime. And so, all along, I have sabotaged pleasure and joy. Now although I see this and 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
give you the answer why you have rejected pleasure. You will then find that you reject pleasure 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
pleasure. You will then find that you reject pleasure because you reject yourself. I repeat that the 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
this new understanding. Your rejection of happiness, joy, pleasure, life, and love is in reality just a 99 FALSIFIED IMPRESSIONS OF PARENTS: THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
work that mixed in with healthy and productive pleasure is also destructive or self-destructive pleasure. The latter 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
and productive pleasure is also destructive or self-destructive pleasure. The latter can't always be recognized as such 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
to be in me a confusion between the pleasure principle and rejection, as well as between happiness 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
feels that if you are in pursuit of pleasure, you are not in reality. Reality means rejection 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
therefore you escape from it and build your pleasure in fantasy. This, then, seems to confirm the 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
seems to confirm the contention that reality and pleasure are incompatible. To a lesser degree, this can 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
not only feeling rejected, but also being in pleasure, one would not need to seek pleasure only 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
in pleasure, one would not need to seek pleasure only in unreality. This is the confusion. By 100 MEETING THE PAIN OF DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS
times, it is the mutual exchange of sexual pleasure. Both may indeed be present, yet their presence 106 SADNESS VERSUS DEPRESSION -- RELATIONSHIP
easier to become aware of the opposite, the pleasure. This will require attention, concentration, and self-examination. When 117 SHAME: A LEGACY OF CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES, EVEN FAVORABLE ONES
ones. Be in God! 119. MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE Greetings, my dearest friends 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
to evaluate an experience determines the maximum of pleasure and the minimum of pain. For the former 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
of an entity, the greater its bliss and pleasure, and the less its pain and suffering. This 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
of movement, consciousness, and experience. Experience contains the pleasure principle. The possibility for utter bliss is contained 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
instincts are concerned only with the experience of pleasure. Behind the superstructure of moral standards, laws, and 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
standards, laws, and rules lies the craving for pleasure supreme, regardless of the consequences. In the immature 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
of the consequences. In the immature creature, the pleasure principle would like to function, but insufficient consciousness 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
creates a discrepancy between the creature's capacity for pleasure and its environment. Hence, intellectual maturity frequently hinders 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
its environment. Hence, intellectual maturity frequently hinders the pleasure principle, which is repressed when consciousness does not 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
penetrate the levels. Therefore, the ability to experience pleasure is unable to develop. It remains childish and 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
layers. Movement, which should direct the search for pleasure, is checked, so that the pleasure principle cannot 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
search for pleasure, is checked, so that the pleasure principle cannot unfold in the life of the 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
the individual. Thus the faculties for experiencing maximum pleasure are thwarted. Human beings are meant to experience 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
thwarted. Human beings are meant to experience maximum pleasure, but when you experience pleasure at the expense 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
to experience maximum pleasure, but when you experience pleasure at the expense of harming either others or 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
that infants do not experience erotic or sexual pleasure. The truth is that infants experience physical pleasure 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
pleasure. The truth is that infants experience physical pleasure more strongly than the average adult human being 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
manifest much more intensely. However, experience of the pleasure principle is naturally self-centered and undeveloped -- which 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
hindered. Thus, in the child's early years, its pleasure is directed to its immediate environment -- to 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
is artificially fostered as an antidote to forbidden pleasure, and repression of hate and anger occurs only 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
the unfoldment of your emotional depth in experiencing pleasure, your inner being is off balance. In a 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
in the life force, its experience of the pleasure drive is acute. Every experience in infancy is 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
Every experience in infancy is influenced by the pleasure principle. This principle enters into all of the 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
is born subsequently influence its attitude toward the pleasure principle. Hence, when the baby is caressed, fed 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
is caressed, fed, loved, it experiences acute physical pleasure in contact with its surroundings. If development proceeds 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
outreaching movement induces the entity to direct the pleasure drive outward from the self to the immediate 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
of the great life stream that contain the pleasure principle. Life on earth is a preparation for 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
on earth is a preparation for this supreme pleasure, and therefore it is of utmost importance to 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
the psyche. The trouble spots mean that the pleasure drive was fixed in connection with negative, unpleasurable 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
assimilation of experience. This negative fixation of the pleasure drive may take two extreme forms, with many 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
guilt and fear thwart the unfoldment of the pleasure principle, and the soul is prohibited this aspect 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
the early environment. It is often proclaimed that pleasure for its own sake is wrong. The truth 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
opposite. When the personality is harmoniously developed, the pleasure drive includes others, it gives and receives -- 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
it should be. In a mature individual, the pleasure drive is not self- centered and excluding. Hence 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
development. Frequently an immature individual will use the pleasure drive for other needs -- for example, to 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
aggression and hostility are taken up by the pleasure drive and manifest, without the person's awareness, in 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
one may truly speak of perversion, because the pleasure principle is used for something other than its 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
and the outgrowing of one's problematic emotions. The pleasure principle becomes, at least partly, a substitute for 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
guilt, repression, fear, early childhood fixations of the pleasure principle, its failure to develop, and the effects 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
As I mentioned before, the child experiences intense pleasure in contact with his or her parents. Whether 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
In this process love, being combined with the pleasure drive, is turned into hate. Hate has to 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
most powerful feelings are those connected with the pleasure principle. If you now consider a number of 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
You may believe that only the experience of pleasure during childhood activates the erotic and sexual force 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
individual. But often painful experience melts into the pleasure drive and fixes erotic and sexual pleasure to 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
the pleasure drive and fixes erotic and sexual pleasure to the painful experience. It is important to 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
pain; when fear and pain are absent, the pleasure principle cannot manifest. I cannot stress sufficiently how 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
is to look into your areas of negative pleasure and connect them with the childhood circumstances that 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
person is fixated on negative erotic or sexual pleasure, it is impossible to maintain a fruitful, dynamic 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
the child alleviates the pain by allowing the pleasure principle to influence the painful experience, which might 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
is better than the alternative of thwarting the pleasure drive altogether. In most instances, the person unconsciously 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
concerned only with the simple wish to experience pleasure. Either this pleasure was given, or it was 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
the simple wish to experience pleasure. Either this pleasure was given, or it was not. The parents 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
struggle of the infant is to attain the pleasure and eliminate that which stands in the way 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
search change. One parent may have given more pleasure, the other more pain. Both parents may have 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
may have given both. In any case, the pleasure and pain go on battling within you until 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
conflicts arise from the infant's struggle between attaining pleasure and avoiding pain. The infant's fusing of pain 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
avoiding pain. The infant's fusing of pain and pleasure as a way out must not be confused 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
must not be confused with the unity between pleasure and pain when overcoming the duality of life 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
desire it. When dealing with the pain and pleasure that are fused because you could not assimilate 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
see a wider view. Although the fusing of pleasure and pain in the conflicted psyche may be 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
all, nor could you enjoy any kind of pleasure. Think of the individuals who derive no joy 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
discussed in this lecture reaches beyond the personal pleasure you can experience. Although the latter is a 119 MOVEMENT, CONSCIOUSNESS, EXPERIENCE: PLEASURE, THE ESSENCE OF LIFE
All a baby experiences are sense impressions -- pleasure and pain. Its reactions to both are strong 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
to both are strong. It obviously rejoices when pleasure is given and as obviously objects when pleasure 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
pleasure is given and as obviously objects when pleasure is withheld or when it experiences any degree 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
it experiences any degree of pain. Frustration of pleasure or infliction of pain cause violent anger. The 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
is no reason, no sense of how its pleasure may have a relationship with the pain of 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
is completely isolated in its own sensing of pleasure or sensing of pain. Even pain and pleasure 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
pleasure or sensing of pain. Even pain and pleasure -- this limited range of experience -- do 120 THE INDIVIDUAL AND HUMANITY
in this expression. For instance, apart from the pleasure principle, there is the need for being needed 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
the need to give and receive love, affection, pleasure, such an imbalance has to be recognized and 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
I do not mean to imply that the pleasure principle can be displaced into another outlet in 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
for ego-gratification and self-esteem, the need for the pleasure of accomplishment, the need for carrying responsibility and 121 DISPLACEMENT, SUBSTITUTION, SUPERIMPOSITION
with the troubled area is like the fleeting pleasure of giving in to any destructive impulse. The 125 TRANSITION FROM THE NO-CURRENT TO THE YES-CURRENT
It stifles the ability to give and receive pleasure and joy. It limits the marvelous potentials of 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
fear of death, fear of love, fear of pleasure, fear of risk, fear of change, fear of 127 EVOLUTION'S FOUR STAGES: AUTOMATIC REFLEXES, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING, KNOWING
the universal powers within you, destined for your pleasure and expansion, for your growth and experience. Not 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
and suffering, but to happy experience, freedom and pleasure. In the course of the years, we have 128 LIMITATIONS CREATED THROUGH ILLUSORY ALTERNATIVES
is blocked. A further fundamental human aim is pleasure supreme. All these aspects -- eternal life, control 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
aspects -- eternal life, control over one's destiny, pleasure supreme -- are deeply inborn, instinctive spiritual aims 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
it strives to recapture them. If you desire pleasure because you fear pain or the absence of 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
because you fear pain or the absence of pleasure, the door to pleasure remains closed. Once you 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
or the absence of pleasure, the door to pleasure remains closed. Once you have learned that the 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
Once you have learned that the absence of pleasure is not an abyss of darkness to shrink 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
all the fulfillment, the abundance, the bliss and pleasure supreme in a liberated life, and in the 130 FINDING TRUE ABUNDANCE BY GOING THROUGH YOUR FEAR
not yet possess an ego. It seeks omnipotence, pleasure supreme, the ultimate bliss that knows neither lack 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
learn to let go of a desire for pleasure supreme and make do with limited pleasure before 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
for pleasure supreme and make do with limited pleasure before you can realize that absolute pleasure is 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
limited pleasure before you can realize that absolute pleasure is your ultimate destiny. Accepting less is an 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
ultimate aim of perfection, of limitless power, of pleasure supreme, I do not mean that you realize 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
distortions of utter perfection, utter power, and utter pleasure. In the underdeveloped ego, these desires are not 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
accepted will it prove superfluous, and work and pleasure will become one. But evading this work leaves 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
this childish desire for omnipotence, the dream of pleasure supreme -- this seems to me to be 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
you do not wish to give up omnipotence, pleasure supreme, and the ease the spirit longs for 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
one wants a certain experience, or a certain pleasure, or a certain power? And then I would 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
must serve you. You want to attain that pleasure with the limited scope and vision of the 132 THE FUNCTION OF THE EGO IN RELATIONSHIP TO THE REAL SELF
a specific process took place. The erotic, or pleasure principle, was put in the service of your 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
to character and temperament, also combine with the pleasure principle. This attachment creates all the personal difficulties 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
regardless of their outer action, can experience the pleasure principle only in fantasies of cruelty, you will 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
that has created this condition. Cruelty without the pleasure principle could never have real power. Lack of 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
of awareness of this combination of cruelty and pleasure by no means alleviates the effect it has 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
fact or a creation of your imagination, your pleasure principle is attached to cruelty and functions somewhat 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
shame will be removed. As understanding grows, the pleasure principle will gradually respond to positive events. The 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
respond to positive events. The combination between the pleasure principle and cruelty can exist either actively or 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
can exist either actively or passively. That is, pleasure is experienced either in inflicting cruelty or in 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
in enduring it -- or both. Attaching the pleasure principle to a condition where it functions most 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
part of the personality. The yearning for the pleasure of love and the ignorance about the fact 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
experience because one fears the attachment of the pleasure principle to negativity often creates a deep hopelessness 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
outright cruelty, but vague rejection or nonacceptance, the pleasure principle will attach itself to a similar situation 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS
spite of the conscious desire for acceptance, the pleasure current will only be activated in conjunction with 135 MOBILITY IN RELAXATION-SUFFERING THROUGH ATTACHMENT OF LIFE FORCE TO NEGATIVE SITUATIONS

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