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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... notion of discharge of psychic tension . It was immediately ap- parent to me -- at that time a " high anxious subject " myself-- that comedy entails anxiety reduction . This I proudly announced to the class , only to be dismayed when ...
... notion of discharge of psychic tension . It was immediately ap- parent to me -- at that time a " high anxious subject " myself-- that comedy entails anxiety reduction . This I proudly announced to the class , only to be dismayed when ...
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... notion of anxiety . This is needed to tie the more or less intense events depicted in the literary work with a hy- pothesized corresponding reaction in the audience that is necessarily much more subtle and probably beneath the range of ...
... notion of anxiety . This is needed to tie the more or less intense events depicted in the literary work with a hy- pothesized corresponding reaction in the audience that is necessarily much more subtle and probably beneath the range of ...
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... notion in Freud's writings . If not these points , then certainly Bergson's references to " repressed feelings " and ... notions of saving of thought effort and emotion . In any case , Freud's willingness to trade in such terminology ...
... notion in Freud's writings . If not these points , then certainly Bergson's references to " repressed feelings " and ... notions of saving of thought effort and emotion . In any case , Freud's willingness to trade in such terminology ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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