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Page 73
... HUMAN . • It is often said that laughter is excited only by the human . This point is forcibly made by Bergson . Several philosophers , he says , " have defined man as an animal which laughs . ' They might equally well have defined him ...
... HUMAN . • It is often said that laughter is excited only by the human . This point is forcibly made by Bergson . Several philosophers , he says , " have defined man as an animal which laughs . ' They might equally well have defined him ...
Page 74
... human rules . Of course , by far the greater part of our laughter is occasioned by , or directed at , human beings . The human touches us more closely than the non - human . Whatever is apprehended at all must , in the act of appre ...
... human rules . Of course , by far the greater part of our laughter is occasioned by , or directed at , human beings . The human touches us more closely than the non - human . Whatever is apprehended at all must , in the act of appre ...
Page 140
... human beings handled and controlled by Fate . There is nothing necessarily tragic in it either , but on the whole it is more likely to be taken as a tragic than as a comic theme . It may be true that children get fun out of the dancing ...
... human beings handled and controlled by Fate . There is nothing necessarily tragic in it either , but on the whole it is more likely to be taken as a tragic than as a comic theme . It may be true that children get fun out of the dancing ...
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