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  title info:
    title: The sweet spot
    sub title: the pleasures of suffering and the search for meaning
  name:
    name part: Bloom, Paul
    name part: 1963-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvii, 272 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Why do we so often seek out physical pain and emotional turmoil? We go to movies that make us cry, or scream or gag. We poke at sores, eat spicy foods, immerse ourselves in hot baths, run marathons. Some of us even seek out pain and humiliation in sexual role-play. Where do these seemingly perverse appetites come from? Drawing on groundbreaking findings from psychology and brain science, The Sweet Spot shows how the right kind of suffering sets the stage for enhanced pleasure. Pain can distract us from our anxieties and help us transcend the self. Choosing to suffer can serve social goals. It can display how tough we are or, conversely, can function as a cry for help. Feelings of fear and sadness are part of the pleasure of immersing ourselves in play and fantasy and can provide certain moral satisfactions. And effort, struggle and difficulty can, in the right contexts, lead to the joys of mastery and flow. But suffering plays a deeper role as well. We are not natural hedonists. A good life involves more than pleasure. People seek lives of meaning and significance. We aspire to rich relationships and satisfying pursuits, and this requires some amount of struggle, anxiety and loss. Brilliantly argued, witty and humane, Paul Bloom shows how a life without chosen suffering would be empty, and worse than that, boring.
  table of contents: Preface: the good life -- Suffer -- Benign masochism -- An unaccountable pleasure -- Struggle -- Meaning -- Sacrifice -- Sweet poison.
  target audience: adult
  note: Paul Bloom.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Social psychology
  subject:
    topic: Pleasure
  subject:
    topic: Suffering
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Pain
    topic: Psychological aspects
  classification: HM1033 .B56 2021
  classification: 152.42
  identifier: 0062910566
  identifier: 9780062910561
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 210205
    record change date: 20220201204609.2
    record identifier: in00004549839