The Shocking Link Between Pain and Pleasure in the Sublime Experience

#shorts #jordanpeterson #psychology #philosophy I mean, a lot of the new books that I'm writing about, which is the sublime is as I'm talking about, it's a combination of two emotions of both kind of pain and pleasure, of excitement and fear at the same time. And the confluence of two emotions, opposing emotions at the same time is very, very powerful for a human being. I've just written a book that I'm going to publish next year that's called an ABC of Childhood Tragedy, and it's a combination of dark humor and beauty. We're trying to, we're experimenting with exactly the same thing, those paradoxical juxtaposition of dark and light emotions. There is something sublime about that. Why the sublime? There's also that element of fear involved, right? See, I think that's a better, what would you call it, formulation than Nietzsche's idea of will to power, is the desire to exist on that sublime edge. And that is the border between order and chaos that you're describing.