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Page 16
... operation of this law makes it very difficult , and sometimes almost impossible , to deter- mine exactly what are the original stimuli of the instincts of man . To be sure of an instinct one must catch it in flagrante the very first ...
... operation of this law makes it very difficult , and sometimes almost impossible , to deter- mine exactly what are the original stimuli of the instincts of man . To be sure of an instinct one must catch it in flagrante the very first ...
Page 63
... operation of the instinct of pugnacity at all . Young children are not cruel , in the strict sense of the word ; they do not inflict suffering which they know to be such , but rather torment animals and human beings accidentally ...
... operation of the instinct of pugnacity at all . Young children are not cruel , in the strict sense of the word ; they do not inflict suffering which they know to be such , but rather torment animals and human beings accidentally ...
Page 234
... operation . For it works first on the ill - nature of the audience ; they are moved to laugh by the representation of deformity ; and the shame of that laughter teaches us to amend what is ridiculous in our manners . " 4 THOMAS SHADWELL ...
... operation . For it works first on the ill - nature of the audience ; they are moved to laugh by the representation of deformity ; and the shame of that laughter teaches us to amend what is ridiculous in our manners . " 4 THOMAS SHADWELL ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
THE LAUGHTER OF INFANTS | 23 |
LOVE AND LAUGHTER | 44 |
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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