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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... mention a few especially interesting points not repeated later . First , self - preservation is now mentioned in fact as belonging to the libido . Besides referring to narcissism ( which one would think is not fundamental enough to ...
... mention a few especially interesting points not repeated later . First , self - preservation is now mentioned in fact as belonging to the libido . Besides referring to narcissism ( which one would think is not fundamental enough to ...
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... mention that , on the whole , anxiety is a blanket term that covers a wide range of various intensities and colors of unpleasant feelings and affects . It can go from apprehension and timidity to dread , an- guish , panic , and terror ...
... mention that , on the whole , anxiety is a blanket term that covers a wide range of various intensities and colors of unpleasant feelings and affects . It can go from apprehension and timidity to dread , an- guish , panic , and terror ...
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... mentioned explicitly . Discussion has tended to fill in this larger arena , with new verbal distinctions and new ... mention the use of such terms as " superego , " presuming Freud's whole metapsychology ) , the results are useful . Some ...
... mentioned explicitly . Discussion has tended to fill in this larger arena , with new verbal distinctions and new ... mention the use of such terms as " superego , " presuming Freud's whole metapsychology ) , the results are useful . Some ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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