Compatibility between Freud's and Bergson's Positions on Laughter

James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California

Note 28 to Chapter 1 of the author's Dickens and the Rhetoric of Laughter which Clarendon Press published in 1972. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author and of the Clarendon Press, which retains copyright.

As a matter of fact, Freud agreed with Bergson's theories and saw them as coincident with a part of his own formulation (Wit, p. 338).

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