Weighing Delight and Dole: A Study of Comedy, Tragedy, and AnxietyThis work establishes a concept of anxiety reduction which is applied to a discussion of the literature on comedy and tragedy in order to propose new definitions of these genres. The results of this theoretical treatment are then employed in analyses of works of Shakespeare, Schiller, Buchner, Lessing, Cary, De Vries and Kafka." |
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... individual has developed upon which he feels his safety to depend " ( 142 ) . Henry S. Sullivan asserts that the self is created out of dealing with anxiety - producing experiences ( 149 ) , hence anx- iety is functional . But May notes ...
... individual has developed upon which he feels his safety to depend " ( 142 ) . Henry S. Sullivan asserts that the self is created out of dealing with anxiety - producing experiences ( 149 ) , hence anx- iety is functional . But May notes ...
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... individual in a world in which individuals , more specifically leaders , are no longer relevant . " We did not make the revolu- tion , rather the revolution made us , Danton exclaims ( 2.1 . p.32 ) . The recognition of the submersion of ...
... individual in a world in which individuals , more specifically leaders , are no longer relevant . " We did not make the revolu- tion , rather the revolution made us , Danton exclaims ( 2.1 . p.32 ) . The recognition of the submersion of ...
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... individual on one side and reality on the other ; . . . the gap is not between the individual and the outer world ; it is in the man • Jimson's struggle , therefore , is to assert his own subjective reality against the impingements of ...
... individual on one side and reality on the other ; . . . the gap is not between the individual and the outer world ; it is in the man • Jimson's struggle , therefore , is to assert his own subjective reality against the impingements of ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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aggression Amphitruo Amphitryon anxiety reduction appears Aristotle Aristotle's arousal assert Brod Cary's catastrophe catharsis catharsis of fear central character Chick Claudius comic concept context danger Dantons Tod death defense discussion drama Elizabeth emotion esthetic event example experience fact feelings Frankfurt a/M Franz Kafka Freud Friedrich Schiller Georg Buechner German Gregor grief guilt Gulley Gulley's Hamlet Horse's Mouth hostility Humor iety incongruity individual inhibition inner issue Jimson Journal Joyce Cary kill Claudius Kris laughter Lessing Lessing's literary literature Maria Stuart Mary Mary's matter Max Brod Minna von Barnhelm Muenchen mysticism Nickie Nietzsche notion novel person Peter De Vries pity and fear play pleasure psychoanalysis psychological reality realized revenge role Saemtliche Schiller sense sentimental comedy sexual Shakespeare social social inhibition specifically spectator sublime suggested superego Tellheim theory threat tion tragedy tragic catharsis tragic hero transcendence vicarious Vries's Werke York