pain-economy

Updated: May 3, 2025

In order to learn to organize his material, he has doubtlessly unconsciously lessened its density and vibrancy for the time being. And, too, it may be the result of a change from a pain-economy to a pleasure-economy. The adolescent has grown into the young man. The adjustment may have been made. The poet is no longer forced to mint his miseries and pains alone into art; he is learning to be glad.

Paul Rosenfeld - Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers