مفهوم الضحك لدى برجسون و تطبيقاته في العرض المسرحي العراقي

Abstract EN

Whenever images, forms, and situations are different from their realities and whenever those images are different from what is stored in man's mind and experiences, there will be a feeling of alienation and unfamiliarity which produces amusement and laughter.

Laughter is an instinct condition produced from spontaneity and flexibility away from emotion and anxiety.

Laughter also plays a corrective role for social mistakes for it appears, according to Bergson, in the wrong movement in the rigid speech and situation.

The research includes four chapters; the first involves the problem which is to identify the ranges and applications of laughter according to Bergson in the Iraqi dramatic performance.

The importance of the researcher is that it sheds light upon the psychological, social, and pragmatic bases for laughter as a collective social and psychological behaviour.

It is also useful for the learners in all art fields to know and improves the technique that motivates laughter.

The aim is to identify the technique of laughter according to Bergson in the Iraqi contemporary comic dramatic performance.

The limits of the research are restricted to the performances in the College of Fine Arts / Babylon for the period 1990 to 2009.

The chapter finalizes with the definition of the terminologies.

The second chapter (the theoretical framework) involves three sections; the first is concerned with studying the concept of laughter according to Bergson; the second is about laughter as introduced in psychology whereas the third passes through laughter in drama.

The chapter ends with the indicators which the theoretical framework has come up with.

The third chapter involves the procedures, the samples, the tool, the method of the research.

Tow performances have been chosen as samples to study the technique of laughter.

The fourth chapter contains the results the most important of which are: 1.

Inserting a slang word in the standard language is often used to motivate laughter.

2.

Repetition of the sentences ends as a refrain to motivate laughter.

3.

Contrastive events motivate laughter.

4.

The contrast between form and content motivates laughter.

5.

Conditions of ambiguity and misunderstanding motivate laughter.

The chapter also contains a group of conclusions, recommendations, suggestions, and bibliography.