The art of sound pictures (1930)

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174 THE ART OF SOUND PICTURES ments with it have been completed. At this moment, he is expressing rather complete compliance and a comparatively small amount of passive dominance. Taking the entire series of desire-satisfaction emotions in order, therefore, we begin in desire, with a great deal of compliance gradually replaced by dominance. At the climax of dominance over the object of desire, the emotion of desire begins to change into the emotion of satisfaction. With this change, the emotion of dominance again decreases, and is gradually once more replaced by compliance. The emotional quality and expression of satisfaction is chiefly distinguished from that of desire by the fact that dominance is increasing throughout the desire, while compliance is increasing throughout the emotion of satisfaction. A. Gross Behavior I. Illustrations a. A Western ranch owner, coming in from a day of hard work on the ranch, eats a tremendous dinner. During the latter part of his meal, he eats more and more slowly, chooses his food with greater care, and finally sits passively, with his eyes half closed. In a few minutes he is sound asleep. Compliance has triumphed, and satisfaction has expressed itself to an ultimate degree. b. A woman buys herself a new hat. The hat arrives, and she tries it on. Its color does not blend with the dress she is wearing, so she changes her dress. Then she looks at herself in the mirror for some moments. She tries to think of a bit of jewelry which would enhance the effect of the hat, and searches for a certain necklace. At last she finds it and dons this, also. Then she looks at herself again for fifteen or twenty minutes, turning this way and that, perhaps moving the hat to a slightly different angle. At last she is satisfied, and looks at herself in the mirror passively for a moment or two without making any further adjustments. This is the cUmax in her satisfaction, with comphance almost pushing dominance out of the picture. c. An art collector acquires a new painting. He orders it hung in a certain light, steps back and looks at it from all angles with eyes open, half shut, and