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Page 136
... effect , the dancing - jack effect , and the snowball or nine - pin effect , and he uses these only to extract from them the principle of mechanism , being content thereafter to work out the implications of the principle rather than the ...
... effect , the dancing - jack effect , and the snowball or nine - pin effect , and he uses these only to extract from them the principle of mechanism , being content thereafter to work out the implications of the principle rather than the ...
Page 139
... effect is of minor importance . The degree to which they vary in amusement does not depend on the degree to which they recall that toy , consciously or unconsciously , but on other factors altogether . Harpagon's " Sans dot ! " and ...
... effect is of minor importance . The degree to which they vary in amusement does not depend on the degree to which they recall that toy , consciously or unconsciously , but on other factors altogether . Harpagon's " Sans dot ! " and ...
Page 177
... effect the blows have on god and man . It is the ejaculations of the whipped that release the laugh . But the effect of these is to show Dionysus in a ridiculous light . The spectators turn against him for the sorry rogue that he is ...
... effect the blows have on god and man . It is the ejaculations of the whipped that release the laugh . But the effect of these is to show Dionysus in a ridiculous light . The spectators turn against him for the sorry rogue that he is ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
THE LAUGHTER OF INFANTS | 23 |
LOVE AND LAUGHTER | 44 |
Copyright | |
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adult Allin ambivalent amusing animal Aristophanes Aristotle aroused associations attention audience Bergson called cause character child comedy comic poet comic writer Critical Darwin devil Dionysus disguise displeasure edition effect emotion energy English translation Essay on Laughter excite expression fabliaux Falstaff feeling Freud harmless wit hate Havelock Ellis hostility Hudibras human humour Ibid idea impulse incongruity indecent instinct of love interruption jack-in-the-box effect James Sully joke Journal of Psychology L'île des pingouins laugh laughable Le rire less London love behaviour ludicrous meaning mind mnemic modesty Molière mood moral object obscene obstruction occasion pain Paris parody person phallus play pleasure Preyer provoke Punch QUINTILIAN quoted relation ridiculous rire satire says sexual behaviour Shakespeare situation smile spectators stimulus story suggested Sully supposed surprise Tartufe theory of laughter thing tickling ticklishness tion touch turn unconscious unconscious mind VICTOR DE LAPRADE whole witticism women words