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(via erospainter)
“SUBLIMITY includes, besides the idea of danger, the idea of danger, the idea of power also. Pleasure follows the will, and we are generally affected with it by many things of a force inferior to our own; but pain is always inflicted by a power in some way superior. Strength, violence, pain and terror are therefore ideas which occupy the mind together. The sublimity of wild animals is due to their power; and the power of princes is not unmixed with terror, so that we address them as ‘dread majesty.’ “
~Edmund Burke; “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”
This was my entire British literature class last semester. I remember being endlessly fascinated with the idea of the sublime. The sublime in literature most often functions in moments of great personal upheaval for the characters of the story. D.H. Lawrence’s Elizabeth from “Odour of Chrystanthemums” stares at the sublime, dead body of her husband and confronts her own mortality from a an infinite distance.
I think most of BDSM falls under the category of Burke’s definition of the sublime. The Dom experiences the euphoria of being detached from the “terror” felt by the sub. At the same time, the sub is experiencing this “terror” with the knowledge that his/her Dom is there to act as a safety net. The sub will never fully get pushed into the bottomless pit, but will instead get dangled over the edge without being let go.
love this….the writing mostly
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