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    Challenges→Aesthetic pleasure in artistic representations of unpleasant or tragic content can outweigh the pain associated with that content.

    If tragic pleasure is constituted by the very working-through of painful emotion, then the 'pain' is not a cost offset by pleasure but an internal condition of the aesthetic experience itself.

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    Constituted by(describing what conditions would make something true)
    Made up of or determined by; in this case, what things would need to happen for something to count as true.
    aesthetic experience(Sulzer's aesthetics)
    A variety of free and unhindered activity of the representational capacity that produces pleasurable sentiments.
    cost offset by(as used in philosophy of value)
    A bad thing that is canceled out or balanced by a good thing—like losing $10 but gaining $20, so the loss is 'offset.'
    internal condition(as used in metaphysics)
    A necessary part of something from within, rather than something external added to it; it's built into the thing itself.
    tragic pleasure(as used in aesthetics and philosophy of art)

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    The confusing but real enjoyment we get from watching or reading sad or painful stories—like feeling moved by a sad movie even though it makes us cry.
    working-through(as used in psychology and aesthetics)
    The process of experiencing and processing emotions fully, rather than avoiding them or pushing them away.

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