The art of sound pictures (1930)

i82 THE ART OF SOUND PICTURES Some girls, during the emotion of captivation, experience extreme flow of saliva, bodily heat, and a sort of prickling excitement of the entire body, with marked muscular tension and a certain feeling of strain, due, apparently, to marked tension of tonic muscles and increase of blood to the brain. The increase of both strength and rapidity of heart beat, and rise in systolic blood pressure, is very marked during captivation. These symptoms show a notable contrast to the dry mouth and feelings of weakness and even nausea frequently expressive of passion. Abnormal or Unpleasant Emotions By far the commonest of the unpleasant emotions are fear and rage. Each calls for extensive discussion. Fear. This emotion accompanies flight or involuntary withdrawal from some threatened danger or suffering. Fear and rage are both composed of the elements of dominance and compliance in the wrong relationship to each other. In desire, for example, compliance with hunger pangs, or with the food which will quell them, is only temporary and is the means to a dominant end. Similarly in satisfaction; though there is far more compliance here than in desire, compliance is still held in check and ultimately replaced by dominance. Dominance over our environment means that we control it. Compliance means just the reverse. Here the environment has the upper hand. And in so far as we ultimately comply with an inanimate object stronger than ourselves, we suffer defeat, which in turn is accompanied by some degree of self-destruction or injury. Deliberately to seek compliance with our environment as the ultimate end of action is deliberately to act in such