[349] Lipps gives special attention in his Psychologie der Komik to this point (Philosph. Monatshefte, 24 and 25).
[350] I shall not here discuss the relative importance of the two.
[351] Even the first shock is not entirely unpleasant, since we usually have a premonition of the approaching counter shock.
[352] La Suggestion dans l’art, p. 39.
[353] See Sully, Studies in Childhood, p. 501.
[354] “The first stage, depression, is in itself considered entirely extra-æsthetic. For as soon as inner imitation comes into play—that is, as soon as the æsthetic aspect is assumed—the projection of the I into the object begins and depression gives place to exaltation.” Op. cit., p. 336.
[355] Herman Wagner, Spielbuch für Knaben, p. 572.
[356] H. Wagner, Spielbuch für Knaben, p. 542.
[357] I. von Kreis, Ueber die Natur gewisser Gehirnzustande. Zeitschrift f. Psych. u. Phys. d. Sinnesorgane, viii (1894), p. 9.