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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... pleasure is due to the wit technique , bypassing the inhibition , and how much to the tendency itself ( 111 ) . Apparently the pleasures of the two together are in- distinguishable . Freud mixes in a variety of incidental pleasures with ...
... pleasure is due to the wit technique , bypassing the inhibition , and how much to the tendency itself ( 111 ) . Apparently the pleasures of the two together are in- distinguishable . Freud mixes in a variety of incidental pleasures with ...
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A Study of Comedy, Tragedy, and Anxiety Peter Bruce Waldeck. " functional pleasure , " a notion derived from Wm . James and Karl Gross . Comic pleasure is distinguished from this by referring to a " past achievement of the ego which has ...
A Study of Comedy, Tragedy, and Anxiety Peter Bruce Waldeck. " functional pleasure , " a notion derived from Wm . James and Karl Gross . Comic pleasure is distinguished from this by referring to a " past achievement of the ego which has ...
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... pleasure on a higher level . But he does not attempt to account for higher moral pleasures in terms of the lower , natural ones . Their independent justification derives directly from their serving a functionality or purpose of their ...
... pleasure on a higher level . But he does not attempt to account for higher moral pleasures in terms of the lower , natural ones . Their independent justification derives directly from their serving a functionality or purpose of their ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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