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The Psychology of Beauty

Chapter 23 No.23

Word Count: 744    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

A necessary step to the explanation of our pleasure in supposedly painful emotions is to make clear how we can feel any emotion at all in watching what we know to be unreal, and to show how this emotion is sympathetic, that is, imitative, rather than of an objective reference. In brief, why do we feel WITH, rather than toward or about, the actors?

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The Psychology of Beauty
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