Pleasure and instinct : a study in the psychology of human action / A.H. Burlton Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, A. H. B. (Arthur Henry Burlton), 1872, author.

Series:

International library of psychology ; 1.

International Library of Psychology ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pleasure.

Instinct.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1930.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1999

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Part I: Introductory; Summary of principal theories of pleasure and unpleasure Questions of nomenclature; Part II: Sensory Pleasure and Unpleasure; Chapter I. The Question Stated; Chapter II. The Special Senses and the General Bodily Process; Chapter III. The Theory of Sensory Unpleasure; Chapter IV. Summary of Results; Part III: Pleasure and Unpleasure in Relation to the Main Instincts; Chapter I. Instincts of Nutrition and Bodily Maintenance; Chapter II. Reproductive Instincts

Chapter III. Curiosity, or the Impulse to KnowledgeChapter IV. The Impulse to Power; Chapter V. Altruism and the Gregarious Instinct; Chapter VI. Summary and Classification of the Human Instincts; Chapter VII. The Relation of Feeling to the Instincts; Chapter VIII. The Æsthetic Experience. Play; Part IV: The Psychological Nature of Pleasure and Unpleasure as Compared with Sensation; Part V: Pleasure and Desire. Other Corollaries. Ideo-Motor Action. The Relativity of Feelings; Part VI: Other Kinds of Feeling. The Psychology of Values; Index

Notes:

"Transferred ro Digital Printing 2007"--Title page. verso.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-136-33576-5

1-138-87546-5

1-315-01032-1

1-136-33569-2

OCLC:

900480919