What does it mean laugh?

"What does it mean laugh? What common items we could find between grimace of a buffoon, a play on words, a scene of fine comedy?" (H. Bergson). Around these questions were structured theories that may be grouped in three categories:

• laughing means to discredit; the laughter is a form of human aggression, the purpose - denigrate somebody. The idea is associated with his usual Hobbes, but we can meet and Plato, Aristotle, Cicero. The conclusions are divided: some of the laughter is good, no violent tendencies, aggressive, or is nasty.
• Laughter is the result of inadequacy of two things. After Kant, "sudden laughter is due to the transition from a state of tension at something free".

The majority of the analyzes start from a common point: the laughter does not exist outside of what is only human. Many define as "animal man who knows how to laugh. Then, and some of the laughter is something of intelligent people, is addressed to the pure intelligence, but not a single intelligent, but intelligences in contact. Our laughter is always the laughter of a group. The one who laughs alone is warned that "the fools laugh at one", then invited to expose the reasons, in the event of his amusement.

Therefore, in order to understand the laughter, we need to station it in its natural environment. The laughter must meet the requirements of life in common. The laughter must have a social significance" (H. Bergson, "Le Rire").

The laughter is a signal that the interactions between the people can start, can continue. Any contact with social causes fear, the other is in the moment of meeting an unknown. His smile, laugh, shows the existence of the fears and feelings, but the existence of acceptance. Slight distrust turns into a mutual attraction. The fear least means not to be aggressive, i.e. to be user-friendly. After the interaction begins, and some of the laughter remains available as a binder. Heavy situations exceed easier if they are shared and - last but not least - making fun of trouble. In the form of anecdotelor, bascaliei, small gossip, cant colored ironically (all - reasons to laugh, the weld, identifying in relation with others.

The laughter restore calmness, balance, where they have been affected by the tense situation. Freud associates sexual energy laughter, laugh at what is prohibit.

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