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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... position . But the seat of the self and the self - concept is by definition the ego ; only the fact that ego and superego fre- quently " flow together " ( 389 ) permits this shift . Freud him- self concludes that if indeed this analysis ...
... position . But the seat of the self and the self - concept is by definition the ego ; only the fact that ego and superego fre- quently " flow together " ( 389 ) permits this shift . Freud him- self concludes that if indeed this analysis ...
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... position is pivot- al , and while he argues for her life , his plan to use a meet- ing between them to free Mary is doomed first by his false flattery of Elizabeth's womanly attributes , then by his pres- ence at the meeting ...
... position is pivot- al , and while he argues for her life , his plan to use a meet- ing between them to free Mary is doomed first by his false flattery of Elizabeth's womanly attributes , then by his pres- ence at the meeting ...
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... position of some sort . Meanwhile the outer self is , as Brod notes , greatly exaggerated in its negative characteristics . This casts the inner refuge in a correspondingly purer light . The safety which the inward- turned self enjoys ...
... position of some sort . Meanwhile the outer self is , as Brod notes , greatly exaggerated in its negative characteristics . This casts the inner refuge in a correspondingly purer light . The safety which the inward- turned self enjoys ...
Contents
Comedy | 47 |
Tragedy | 81 |
Grief and Another Delay Theory Hamlet | 115 |
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