Shipwreck, Self-preservation and the Sublime
"The passions which belong to self-preservation, turn on pain and danger; they are simply painful when their causes immediately affect us; they are delightful when we have an idea of pain and danger, without being actually in such circumstances; this delight I have not called pleasure, because it turns on pain, and because it is different enough from any idea of positive pleasure. Whatever excites this delight, I call sublime. The passions belonging to self-preservation are the strongest of all the passions."
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Above: Théodore Géricault - The Raft of Medusa (Le Radeau de la Méduse ), 1818-19, oil on canvas, 491 × 716 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris