The phenomenon of "absorption" or the intense focusing of attention that results in a sense of escape and diversion is examined here. In this context, the principal areas of adult recreation are examined: stories, shows, intoxication, sex, music, dancing, art, and meditation. The issues discussed in this book have generally been overlooked by psychology, which is primarily concerned with the everyday business of living (self, anxiety, learning, etc.). This study will promote the understanding of the tremendous attractiveness of these modern diversions that are extremely absorbing and hypnotic.
The phenomenon of "absorption" or the intense focusing of attention that results in a sense of escape and diversion is examined here. In this context, the principal areas of adult recreation are examined: stories, shows, intoxication, sex, music, dancing, art, and meditation. The issues discussed in this book have generally been overlooked by psychology, which is primarily concerned with the everyday business of living (self, anxiety, learning, etc.). This study will promote the understanding of the tremendous attractiveness of these modern diversions that are extremely absorbing and hypnotic.
Table of Contents Introduction: Psychological Diversion as Adult Play 1. Absorbed Attention Degrees of Diversion The Changing Relationship between Work and Play 2. Breaking Out of Everyday Consciousness Invisible and Silent Recreation Absorption as Hypnotic Involvement Mental Relaxation Suspending the Master Codes 3. The Enjoyments of Being Absorbed Feeling a Dzyerent Identity Spellbound in a New Reality High-Quality Experience: Relaxed Arousal 4. Story Enjoyment The Story Spell vs. the Illusion of Reality The Fallacy of Vicarious Experience Being One- With Fictional Characters 5. Ever More Absorbing Stories Early Developments in Story Entertainment The Movies Television 6. Recreational Drugs Getting High Alcohol Marijuana The Psychedelics 7. The Recreational Value of People Human Interaction as Personal Business Sociable Recreation Falling in Love 8. Sexual Experience From Procreation to Recreation Absorption and Erotic Fantasy 9. Motion and Emotion in Music Music as Relaxed Arousal From 'Stardust" to Rock: Mild to Extreme Diversion Listening to Classical Music 10. Cultivated Diversions: Art Appreciation vs. Enjoyment Absorption as Psychic Distance and Empathy Peak Experience through Aesthetic Absorption 11. Cultivated Diversions of Body and Mind When Action Is Absorbing Zen Sport: Letting the Body Take Over Inspiration and the Play of Ideas 12. Meditation: The Cleansing of Awareness The Limits of Lulling Spiritual Efects through the Suspension of Perceptual Codes Sensing the Supernatural 13. High-Processing Psychological States The Four Major Orientations of the Organism The Everyday Business of Living Mental Distress Ego-Involvement as a Basis for Distress and Mental Breakdown 14. Low-Processing Psychological States Sleep and Dreams A Declaration of Independence for the State of Absorption Chapter Notes Index
Table of Contents Introduction: Psychological Diversion as Adult Play 1. Absorbed Attention Degrees of Diversion The Changing Relationship between Work and Play 2. Breaking Out of Everyday Consciousness Invisible and Silent Recreation Absorption as Hypnotic Involvement Mental Relaxation Suspending the Master Codes 3. The Enjoyments of Being Absorbed Feeling a Dzyerent Identity Spellbound in a New Reality High-Quality Experience: Relaxed Arousal 4. Story Enjoyment The Story Spell vs. the Illusion of Reality The Fallacy of Vicarious Experience Being One- With Fictional Characters 5. Ever More Absorbing Stories Early Developments in Story Entertainment The Movies Television 6. Recreational Drugs Getting High Alcohol Marijuana The Psychedelics 7. The Recreational Value of People Human Interaction as Personal Business Sociable Recreation Falling in Love 8. Sexual Experience From Procreation to Recreation Absorption and Erotic Fantasy 9. Motion and Emotion in Music Music as Relaxed Arousal From 'Stardust" to Rock: Mild to Extreme Diversion Listening to Classical Music 10. Cultivated Diversions: Art Appreciation vs. Enjoyment Absorption as Psychic Distance and Empathy Peak Experience through Aesthetic Absorption 11. Cultivated Diversions of Body and Mind When Action Is Absorbing Zen Sport: Letting the Body Take Over Inspiration and the Play of Ideas 12. Meditation: The Cleansing of Awareness The Limits of Lulling Spiritual Efects through the Suspension of Perceptual Codes Sensing the Supernatural 13. High-Processing Psychological States The Four Major Orientations of the Organism The Everyday Business of Living Mental Distress Ego-Involvement as a Basis for Distress and Mental Breakdown 14. Low-Processing Psychological States Sleep and Dreams A Declaration of Independence for the State of Absorption Chapter Notes Index
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