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Wit and its relation to the unconscious

Note 72 — C. THEORETICAL PART

A. A. (Abraham Arden) Brill translation

Degradation: A. Bain (The Emotions and the Will, 2nd Ed., 1865) states: “The occasion of the ludicrous is the degradation of some person of interest possessing dignity, in circumstances that excite no other strong emotion” (p. 248).

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