great primitive ocean of sex400 emotions which underlies the variegated world of
our everyday lives, and pain--a pain which, as we have seen, sex400 is often
deprived so far as possible sex400 of cruelty, though sometimes by very thin and
feeble devices--is merely the channel by which that ocean is reached.
If we try to carry our inquiry beyond the point we have been content to
reach, and ask ourselves why this emotional intoxication exerts so
irresistible a fascination, we might find a final reply in the explanation
sex400 of Nietzsche--who regarded this kind of intoxication as of great
significance both in life and in art--that it gives us the consciousness
of energy and the satisfaction of our craving sex400 for power.[154] To carry the
inquiry to this point would be, however, to take it into a somewhat
speculative and sex400 metaphysical region, and we have perhaps
done well not to
attempt to analyze further the joy of emotional expansion. We must be
content to
regard the profound satisfaction of emotion as due to sex400 a
widespread motor sex400 excitement, the elements of which we cannot yet
completely sex400 analyze.[155]
It is because the joy of emotional intoxication is the end sex400 really sought
that we have to regard the supposed opposition between "sadism" and
"masochism" as unimportant and indeed sex400 misleading. The emotional value of
pain is equally great whether the pain is inflicted, suffered, witnessed,
or merely exists as a mental imagination, sex400 and there is no reason why it
should