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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... inhibition ( such as a cultural prohibition ) . In both cases he presents examples of completely conscious re- strictions which the joke bypasses . In his final formulation he will refer only to unconscious inhibitions . We can't de ...
... inhibition ( such as a cultural prohibition ) . In both cases he presents examples of completely conscious re- strictions which the joke bypasses . In his final formulation he will refer only to unconscious inhibitions . We can't de ...
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... inhibition is saved be- cause the normal inhibition is missing to begin with ( 207 ) . The movements of the Bergsonian clown and in general his com- edy of motion are comic not because they are mechanical , but because they are ...
... inhibition is saved be- cause the normal inhibition is missing to begin with ( 207 ) . The movements of the Bergsonian clown and in general his com- edy of motion are comic not because they are mechanical , but because they are ...
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... inhibition-- though this notion became murky in the issue of whether the inhibition was conscious or unconscious -- renders the inhibi- tion energy momentarily superfluous , then it would be rea- sonable to think that it might then be ...
... inhibition-- though this notion became murky in the issue of whether the inhibition was conscious or unconscious -- renders the inhibi- tion energy momentarily superfluous , then it would be rea- sonable to think that it might then be ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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