Author: Gaylyn Studlar
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231082339
Category : Feminism and motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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In a major revision of feminist-psychoanalytic theories of film pleasure and sexual difference, Studlar's close textual analysis of the six Paramount films directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich probes the source of their visual and psychological complexity. Borrowing from Gilles Deleuze's psychoanalytic-literary approach, Studlar shows how masochism extends beyond the clinical realm, into the arena of artistic form, language, and production of pleasure. The author's examination of the von Sternberg/Dietrich collaborations shows how these films, with the mother figure embodied in the alluring yet androgynous Dietrich, offer a key for understanding film's "masochistic aesthetic." Studlar argues that masochism's broader significance to film study lies in the similarities between the structures of perversion and those of the cinematic apparatus, as a dream screen reviving archaic visual pleasures for both male and female spectators.
Author: Samuel Segun Oladipo
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1664217169
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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It can be affirmed that ALL THINGS were originally designed for PLEASURES because there was NEVER evil in the original creation! The originator of the idea of creation had no evil in Him neither could He ever imagine creating any singular thing to represent evil. Therefore, there was no evil thought, evil plan, evil agenda at any state or realm. Even Satan, the embodiment of all evils was not originally created with any spot of evil as portrayed in Ezekiel 28 :13-15 Everything about Adam , everything Adam tasted, everything Adam used, everything Adam felt (Just like God after all creations), and everything Adam saw were “VERY GOOD” without any exception. Adam originally had the mind and the Spirit of God. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7 He was therefore pleasured by everything within and around him. They were all created for his pleasures too. Moreover, all the things that God created received nothing short of his maximum blessings. “The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.” Proverbs 10:22 Here are some postulations in respect to the continuity of God’s designed pleasures for His creatures: 1. What if there was no Devil? 2. What if there was no tempter or temptation? 3. What if Eve and Adam had overcome the temptation? 4. What if there was no curse from God, the Creator? Well, you can be sure that the original plan and purpose of the Creator would have continued forever. Nothing void of good pleasure ever originated from God, hence the original motive of God in whatsoever He created was pleasure and for the pleasure of whom He originally bestowed them at any given time. When all is said and done, at the consummation of all things, When there shall be the emergence of the New Heaven and a New Earth, His purpose and desire will still have the original label and signature ‘Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”(Revelation 4:11) which will ultimately be to the pleasure and delight of all creatures that will be with the Creator throughout eternity.
Author: Luciano L'Abate
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313395802
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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This book examines a seemingly simple and absolutely essential topic: learning how to enjoy every aspect of your life on a daily basis. All of us look for happiness, well-being, and positivity throughout our lives, but for most people these goals are abstract and the processes established to achieve them ambiguous. The Seven Sources of Pleasure in Life: Making Way for the Upside in the Midst of Modern Demands focuses attention upon the concrete, specific, and everyday sources of pleasure that are within the grasp of almost everyone. Prolific author Luciano L'Abate, PhD, ABEPP, examines at all kinds of pleasures, investigating where we find them, why they appeal to us, and what benefits they provide in terms of both mental and physical health. He explains how to increase our sensitivity to everyday opportunities for pleasure, and then gives tangible techniques to focus upon these moments in order to fully experience them. The author employs personal memories from his childhood in Italy, more recent stories from his travels abroad, and the findings of most recent scientific research on the benefits of pleasure-seeking to further illustrate his points.
Author: Barbara Ann Mary Mack
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1524601225
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 627
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I have been sent by Almighty God to enlighten the sinners. My brothers and sisters, I have been sent by Almighty God, the Blessed and Holy Trinity, to enlighten those who believe that they are saved. My brothers and sisters, your salvation is confirmed by your lifestyles today. Are you living according to Almighty Gods, the Unchangeable Ones, holy words, which flow so eloquently through the Bible? My brothers and sisters, do not be deceived or fooled by Satan, the deceiving realm. In order for one to enjoy the gift of salvation, one must, at all times, exhibit the acts and works of Jesuss version of a Christian. Out of divine mercy for his loved ones on earth today, our Perfect, Unchanging Lord has sent his messenger (Barbara) to recite his holy words in your worthy presence. Because of his great generosity, he has deemed this generation worthy to hear his holy words pertaining to salvation, through his modern-day messenger (Barbara). In the midst of this very tragic period, Almighty God has graced this generation with his holy presence in a tangible form (Barbara) so that those whom he has called and chosen will see his glorious light in the midst of Satans, the worlds, realm of darkness. Behold, my brothers and sisters! Behold the generosity of our caring and merciful God! For he is truly in our midst today. Hallelujah! March 1, 2016, at 5:28 p.m., by Barbara Ann Mary MackUndo
Author: Lionel Tiger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351475657
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Pleasure is biologically desirable and good for physical and mental health. In The Pursuit of Pleasure, Lionel Tiger explores this aspect of human nature by focusing on the origins and forms of pleasure. Medical science has perfected a host of often astonishingly impressive methods for preventing, alleviating, or recovering from pain. Its opposite, pleasure, has not had such a well-funded and fully justified constituency. In fact, those committed to the understanding and pursuit of pleasure, are rarely accorded respect and a sense of significance. People have objected to the notion of pleasure for a variety of reasons. The most complex derive from religious convictions that the most morally admirable human life is marked by abstemiousness, suffering, even martyrdom. There is also a corresponding fear that people may pursue pleasure too avidly and with too strong a sense of entitlement, and the world's work will not get done. But just as there have been suspicions of the dangers of pleasure, there have also been its supporters who assert its vital and joyful centrality to human experience. The Pursuit of Pleasure favors an agnostic approach borrowed from natural science. In lively, witty, and eminently readable prose, Tiger identifies major forms of pleasure and explores their variations, now and in the past. Pleasure, says Tiger, is not a luxury but an evolutionary entitlement that deserves to be taken seriously. As we acknowledge our need for enjoyment, we understand the need to establish balance in our lives-our need for the pursuit of pleasure.
Author: Richard Pringle
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317516583
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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This innovative text's critical examination foregrounds the prime reason why so many people participate in or watch sport – pleasure. Although there has been a "turn" to emotions and affect within academia over the last two decades, it has been somewhat remiss that pleasure, as an integral aspect of human life, has not received greater attention from sociologists of sport, exercise and physical education. This book addresses this issue via an unabashed examination of sport and the moving body via a "pleasure lens." It provides new insights about the production of various identities, power relations and social issues, and the dialectical links between the socio-cultural and the body. Taking a wide-sweeping view of pleasure - dignified and debauched, distinguished and mundane – it examines topics as diverse as aging, health, fandom, running, extreme sports, biopolitics, consumerism, feminism, sex and sexuality. In drawing from diverse theoretical approaches and original empirical research, the text reveals the social and political significance of pleasure and provides a more rounded, dynamic and sensual account of sport.
Author: John Joseph Cleary
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004177426
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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This volume contains papers and commentaries presented to the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy during the academic year 2007-8. The papers discuss a wide range of topics related to Plato and Aristotle. On Plato, topics include false pleasures in the "Philebus," the tripartite soul in the "Republic," and rhetoric in the "Phaedrus," and on Aristotle, the relation of the physical and psychological in "De Anima," of virtue and happiness in the "Ethics," of body and nature in the "Physics," and the role of pros hen in the "Metaphysics." One other paper argues for the Aristotelian origin of Stoic determinism.
Author: Josephine Kane
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317044746
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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The amusement parks which first appeared in England at the turn of the twentieth century represent a startlingly novel and complex phenomenon, combining fantasy architecture, new technology, ersatz danger, spectacle and consumption in a new mass experience. Though drawing on a diverse range of existing leisure practices, the particular entertainment formula they offered marked a radical departure in terms of visual, experiential and cultural meanings. The huge, socially mixed crowds that flocked to the new parks did so purely in the pursuit of pleasure, which the amusement parks commodified in exhilarating new guises. Between 1906 and 1939, nearly 40 major amusement parks operated across Britain. By the outbreak of the Second World War, millions of people visited these sites each year. The amusement park had become a defining element in the architectural psychological pleasurescape of Britain. This book considers the relationship between popular modernity, pleasure and the amusement park landscape in Britain from 1900-1939. It argues that the amusement parks were understood as a new and distinct expression of modern times which redefined the concept of public pleasure for mass audiences. Focusing on three sites - Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Dreamland in Margate and Southend's Kursaal - the book contextualises their development with references to the wider amusement park world. The meanings of these sites are explored through a detailed examination of the spatial and architectural form taken by rides and other buildings. The rollercoaster - a defining symbol of the amusement park - is given particular focus, as is the extent to which discourses of class, gender and national identity were expressed through the design of these parks.
Author: Camilla Nelson
Publisher: Apollo Books
ISBN: 9781742586076
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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What is happiness, and how does the pursuit of happiness shape our lives? Happiness appears to be a simple emotion, individual and pleasurable, yet the problems associated with happiness in politics, economics, and philosophy suggest that it is perhaps more complex and paradoxical than we first thought. This eclectic collection of essays interrogates the 'common sense' understanding of happiness in the West and examines the strategies devised to obtain it. Without disposing of the concept altogether, the book rediscovers the latent aspects of this pervasive (and elusive) phenomenon. Ultimately, it concludes that our current notions of happiness may in fact be the very cause of our discontent. On Happiness offers readers a spectrum of critical reflections and 'rethinks' of this ubiquitous cultural obsession. *** Librarians: ebook available on ProQuest and EBSCO [Subject: Philosophy, Sociology, Popular Culture]
Author: Chogyam Trungpa
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834821583
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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The Tibetan word bardo is usually associated with life after death. Here, Chögyam Trungpa discusses bardo in a very different sense: as the peak experience of any given moment. Our experience of the present moment is always colored by one of six psychological states: the god realm (bliss), the jealous god realm (jealousy and lust for entertainment), the human realm (passion and desire), the animal realm (ignorance), the hungry ghost realm (poverty and possessiveness), and the hell realm (aggression and hatred). In relating these realms to the six traditional Buddhist bardo experiences, Trungpa provides an insightful look at the "madness" of our familiar psychological patterns and shows how they present an opportunity to transmute daily experience into freedom.
