_Spatial:_ J. felt he took in all groups at once. Each unit seemed like
a rich experience in itself, but he could not detect any rhythm in it,
nor in the whole series. The pleasure consisted in getting a number of
similar objects in the field at once, and enjoying the combination of
them all, feeling that they stretched away in each direction. H. and U.
grouped several unit-groups into a larger unity and enjoyed the cluster
as a whole. They did not group them in any particular system, nor could
they detect the slightest pleasure in moving from one such group to the
next. One found his enjoyment solely in the contrast effects in each,
while the other laid it to the space relations of each independently.
The pleasure only came when each group of groups was spread before
him. Those outside the immediate field meant nothing to him, and the
movement between them had absolutely no conscious interest for him.
S. said that enjoyment stopped altogether during motion of any kind,
and the experience was pleasant only during total repose, on whatever
happened to be in his field at once.
With the temporal type came a marked difference in apperception.
B. affirmed the pleasure to _consist_ in going from one cluster to
another, and to _begin_ just at the point where he meets the next
stimulation and feels it is _going to be_ the same as the one previous.
It is the _expectation_, rather than the _verification_ recurring at
intervals, which makes up the pleasure; not the actual movement, or
subsequent contemplation of a group. The pleasure came in pulses; in
knowing by seeing from the side of the eyes that the experience _is to
be_ repeated, and on reaching the edge of a new group, in the feeling
that the experience is just about to begin.
R. felt that she "wriggled around" in each group of lines, and that a
certain _feeling_ came from "wriggling" among the lines in a particular
fashion.
The pleasure consisted in having this feeling recur at regular
intervals. The repetitions inside the group and of the group as a whole
differed in this respect: For the separate unit-group, it apparently
consisted in repeated short irregular movements, back and forth, enough
to bring about a certain feeling which seemed pleasant and sufficient
unto itself. Repetition of the groups as a whole meant movement across
the field in one direction, for the purpose of meeting another group,
and getting the required feeling from it again. The pleasure was not in
the movement or in any repose (she could detect no repose at all), but
in experiencing the group again, feeling that it had been so before,
and would be again.
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