The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 6

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Página 289 - Well, what of that, do you expect her to have no blemishes at all?"10 2. On being introduced to his prospective bride, the young man is rather unpleasantly disappointed, and drawing aside the marriage agent, he reproachfully whispers to him, "Why have you brought me here? She is ugly and old, she squints, has bad teeth and bleary eyes! " You can talk louder," interposes the marriage agent, "She's deaf, too.
Página 315 - ... the pleasure of wit originates from an economy of expenditure in inhibition, of the comic from an economy of expenditure in thought, and of humor from an economy of expenditure in feeling.
Página 117 - This exudation is all the more remarkable as the surface is then cold, and hence the term, a cold sweat ; whereas the sudorofic glands are properly excited into action when the surface is heated. The hairs also on the skin stand erect, and the superficial muscles shiver. In connection with the disturbed action of the heart the breathing is hurried. The salivary glands act imperfectly; the mouth becomes dry and is...
Página 117 - One of the best-marked symptoms is the trembling of all the muscles of the body; and this is often first seen in the lips. From this cause, and from the dryness of the mouth, the voice becomes husky or indistinct, or may altogether fail.
Página 299 - ... the aim of which is to enlist the third person against our enemy. By belittling and humbling our enemy, by scorning and ridiculing him, we indirectly obtain the pleasure of his defeat through the laughter of the third person, the passive spectator.
Página 117 - In both cases the eyes and mouth are widely opened and the eyebrows raised. The frightened man at first stands like a statue, motionless and breathless, or crouches down as if instinctively to escape observation.
Página 303 - ... to recognize in our college cries and songs the nonsensical and infantile play with words. These feelings are especially enhanced by alcoholic indulgence under which influence the grown up again becomes a child. He derives pleasure from a free disposal of his mental stream which is now unencumbered by the restraint of logic. In reviewing the three groups of the technique of wit it has been shown that the technique of the absurd corresponds to a source of pleasure; and that this pleasure is produced...
Página 300 - ... only alternative under the circumstances would have been to take the affront in silence, had not wit showed him the way, and enabled him by the technical means of unification to turn the tables on his assailant. He not only belittled him and turned him into ridicule, but by his clever retort, "Well, why don't you go there?" fascinated the other clergymen, and thus brought them to his side. The anecdote of the two lawyers mentioned above shows the same mechanism. We have now shown that the pleasure...
Página 107 - The progress from brute to man is characterized by nothing so much as by the decrease in frequency of proper occasions for fear. In civilized life, in particular, it has at last become possible for large numbers of people to pass from the cradle to the grave without ever having had a pang of genuine fear.
Página 301 - The gratification of the tendency is made possible, and in this way the suppression and the "psychic damming" connected with it is evaded. The mechanism of the development of pleasure is the same in both cases. The only difference between the cases of outer and inner hindrances consists in the fact that in the one an already existing inhibition is removed, while in the other the formation of a new inhibition is evaded. We may add that the formation as well as the retention of a psychic inhibition...

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