Tag: Laughing Gods weeping virgins
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The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief
I don’t know what to think of laughter anymore. I used to be happy with it solving so many issues, soothing so many cuts, but now I wonder whether it was only me all along just applying patches to the wounds. It would seem that humour is no laughing matter -or, rather, it’s the laughter…
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Aeon.co, Emily Herring, Freud, Henri Bergson, humour and emotions, humour as incongruity, humour as repression, humour as superiority, incongruity, Ingvild Selid Gilhus, Laughing Gods weeping virgins, Laughter, laughter for social bonding, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, medieval religions, parades, The Feast of Fools, theories of humour, University of Bergen, University of Ghent
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