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not only prolongs but also paradoxically catalyzes the pleasure of direct penile excitations, because adding pressure on the pressure point that is about to explode, pushing the limit right before the point of no return for orgasm, is extraordinarily arousing. Beyond the intense euphoria gained from the excitements of holding back the ejection of body fluid, which constitutes the raison d=être for delaying the ultimate climax, perhaps, hysterically seeking a "bowl" for receiving the "urine" in dreams underscores the difficulty of gratifying the sexual wish that young men most desperately long for in waking life.

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The authors examined correlates of trait absorption to understand when and how pronounced engagement with attentional objects occurs. In Study 1 (N = 321), absorption and openness to experience were positively correlated (r = .64), and these "involvement" constructs were differentiated from Eysenck's Big 3 (Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Psychoticism; H. J. Eysenck & M. W. Eysenck, 1985). In Study 2 (N = 68), absorption was positively correlated with participation in the arts, with effects of art on mood, and with ratings of the importance of art to daily life (ps < .05). Absorption was negatively correlated with speed and positively correlated with productivity of visual figure-ground differentiation and was positively correlated with cross-modal elaborative processing (ps < .05). Trait absorption reflects (a) a motivational readiness to engage in experiential, noninstrumental functioning and (b) distinctive cognitive capacities to efficiently identify and richly elaborate objects of attention.

Literary reading has the capacity to implicate the self and deepen selfunderstanding, but little is known about how and when these effects occur. The present article examines two forms of self-implication in literary reading. In one form, which functions like simile, there is explicitly recognized similarity between personal memories and some aspect of the world of the text (A is like B). In another form, which functions like metaphor, the reader becomes identified with some aspect of the world of the text, usually the narrator or a character (A is B). These forms of self-implication can be differentiated within readers' open-ended comments about their reading experiences.The results of a phenomenological study indicate that such metaphors of personal identification are a pivotal feature of expressive enactment, a type of reading experience marked by (1) explicit descriptions of feelings in response to situations and events in the text, (2) blurred boundaries between oneself and the narrator of the text, and (3) active and iterative modification of an emergent affective theme. The self-modifying feelings characteristic of expressive enactment give it a fugal form, manifest as thematic developments that move toward saturation, richness, and depth. The results of an experimental study suggest that expressive enactment occurs frequently among individuals who remain depressed about a significant loss that occurred some time ago. Together with the phenomenological study,