Dissonance and Excitation

'Enjoyment' is commonly equated with 'Pleasure' and 'Satisfaction', and, hence, with 'Satiety'.  Now, as has been proposed here, Dissonance is constituted by a certain balance between Attraction and Repulsion.  So, because Satiety precludes Repulsion, the enjoyment of Dissonance is often reduced to a combination of Pleasure and Pain.  Thus, the common characterization of Dissonance as, at least in part, 'painful', reflects terminological inadequacy more than analytical acuity.  Instead, a more accurate characterization of the enjoyment of Dissonance is 'Excitation', a nuance that is consistent with Spinoza's definition of 'Pleasure' as an increase in strength, and with Kant's concept of it as a stimulant to both imagination and communication.