 | Yiannis Gabriel - 2000 - 278 páginas
...by a jest, a quality that characterizes the humorist: There is no doubt that the essence of humour is that one spares oneself the affects to which the situation would naturally give rise and dismisses the possibility of such expressions of emotion with a jest' (S. Freud 1927: 428). The characters... | |
 | Herbert M. Lefcourt - 2001 - 226 páginas
...in the expression of negative emotions. Freud defined the "essence of humor" as a process by which "one spares oneself the affects to which the situation...the possibility of such an emotional display" (p. 216). In this sense, humor can be thought of as an emotion-focused coping behavior or a defense mechanism... | |
 | Thomas Schatz - 2004 - 366 páginas
...Freud returned to the same theme in a short paper entitled simply "Humor," in which he observes that "the essence of humor is that one spares oneself the...overrides with a jest the possibility of such an emotional display."12 As with wit and the comic, Freud finds something "liberating" about humor; but the humorous... | |
 | Antony Shuttleworth - 2003 - 274 páginas
..."traumas of the external world" (Freud 1961, 162). As Freud has argued in his discussion of gallows humor, "the essence of humor is that one spares oneself the...which the situation would naturally give rise and dismisses the possibility of such expressions of emotion with a jest" (1961, 162). Dark humor is defensive... | |
 | Richard Allen, S. Ishii-Gonzalès - 2004 - 308 páginas
...Freud returned to the same theme in a short paper entitled simply "Humor," in which he observes that "the essence of humor is that one spares oneself the...overrides with a jest the possibility of such an emotional display."14 As with wit and the comic, Freud finds something "liberating" about humor; but the humorous... | |
 | Richard Allen, S. Ishii-Gonzalès - 2004 - 308 páginas
..."Humor," in whieh he ohserves that "the essenee of humor is that one spares oneself the affeets to whieh the situation would naturally give rise and overrides with a jest the possihilitv of sueh an emotional display." 14 As with wit and the eomie, Freud finds something "liherating"... | |
 | Michael Ure - 2008 - 292 páginas
...economise on its expenditure of affects. "There is no doubt," he avers, "that the essence of humour is that one spares oneself the affects to which the situation would naturally give rise."77 In the case of gallows humour, for example, the ego spares itself the affects of anger, fear,... | |
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There is no doubt that the essence of humor is that one spares oneself the affects to which the situation would naturally give rise and overrides with a jest the possibility of such an emotional display. 