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Fatigue --- Exhaustion --- Lassitude --- Tiredness --- Weariness --- Physiology --- Symptoms --- Rest

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Un essai historique, anthropologique et sociologique consacré aux potentialités positives de l'ennui et à ses liens avec la paresse, la mélancolie, la tristesse, les troubles bipolaires ou les ressourcements créatifs. [4e de couverture]

Boredom --- Ennui --- Ennui --- Ennui --- Boredom. --- Ennui (Lassitude) --- Histoire. --- Anthropologie. --- Sociologie.

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Fatigue can have a major impact on an individual's performance and well-being, yet is poorly understood, even within the scientific community. There is no developed theory of its origins or functions, and different types of fatigue (mental, physical, sleepiness) are routinely confused. The widespread interpretation of fatigue as a negative consequence of work may be true only for externally imposed goals; meaningful or self-initiated work is rarely tiring and often invigorating. In the first book dedicated to the systematic treatment of fatigue for over sixty years, Robert Hockey examines its many aspects - social history, neuroscience, energetics, exercise physiology, sleep and clinical implications - and develops a new motivational control theory, in which fatigue is treated as an emotion having a fundamental adaptive role in the management of goals. He then uses this new perspective to explore the role of fatigue in relation to individual motivation, working life and well-being.

Fatigue --- Fatigue. --- Exhaustion --- Lassitude --- Tiredness --- Weariness --- Physiology --- Symptoms --- Rest --- Health Sciences --- Psychiatry & Psychology

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In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea. He shows how boredom is, in fact, one of our most common and constructive emotions and is an essential part of the human experience.This informative and entertaining investigation of boredom-what it is and what it isn't, its uses and its dangers-spans more than 3,000 years of history and takes readers through fascinating neurological and psychological theories of emotion, as well as recent scientific investigations, to illustrate its role in our lives. There are Australian aboriginals and bored Romans, Jeffrey Archer and caged cockatoos, Camus and the early Christians, Dürer and Degas. Toohey also explores the important role that boredom plays in popular and highbrow culture and how over the centuries it has proven to be a stimulus for art and literature.Toohey shows that boredom is a universal emotion experienced by humans throughout history and he explains its place, and value, in today's world. Boredom: A Lively History is vital reading for anyone interested in what goes on when supposedly nothing happens.

Boredom --- Boredom. --- Boredom in literature. --- Ennui --- Attention --- Mental fatigue --- History. --- Ennui (Lassitude) --- Ennui dans la littérature --- Histoire