Zadig (Classiques) (French Edition)

We also laugh when someone imitates somebody else, because to imitate somebody, the imitator reproduces the most mechanical, the most unconscious movements and gestures of the person. This is also the case with the parody of an activity. For Bergson, this explains also why, as Pascal had noted, when we see two faces that look like very much, we find it comic, while the faces alone are not comic. Where there is repetition, complete similarity, we suspect that there is mechanism behind life.

That diversion of life towards mechanism is the real cause of laughter. At the beginning of chapter five, Bergson thinks again about his method of analysis. He recalls that to look for a unique method of the comic does not make sense. However, there is a central cause of the comic, and all comic situations are derived from it. This central cause is mechanism applied to life, and all comic effects are articulated around this cause by our imagination.

There are three main directions in which our imagination is oriented to produce comic effects, three general laws:. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bergson, Le Rire , Wikisource. Works of Henri Bergson. Retrieved from " https: Related Video Shorts 0! De laatste essays verkennen de grenzen tussen geschiedenis en aanverwante disciplines als antropologie en literatuurwetenschap.

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