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  2. Sad clown paradox - Wikipedia

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    The joke also appears in the closing lines of Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, "The Comic," collected in Letters and Social Aims (1875); [48] Emerson's comedian is named Carlini. The poem was then seen as a story in the 1910s, again, with the performer called 'Grimaldi', [ 49 ] and again from the 1930s, [ 50 ] featuring a clown called 'Grock ...

  3. Mental image - Wikipedia

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    The notion of a "mind's eye" goes back at least to Cicero's reference to mentis oculi during his discussion of the orator's appropriate use of simile. [22]In this discussion, Cicero observed that allusions to "the Syrtis of his patrimony" and "the Charybdis of his possessions" involved similes that were "too far-fetched"; and he advised the orator to, instead, just speak of "the rock" and "the ...

  4. Desert Places - Wikipedia

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    Additional themes are ones of loneliness, fear, and despair. [5] The poem opens with the speaker passing by an empty field during a snowstorm around dusk. As the field is covered with snow, the speaker contemplates the blankness and the whiteness of the snow, a snow "with no expression, nothing to express."

  5. 7 Things Everyone Should Know About Depression - AOL

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    Depression is bad for anyone. But it’s worse for women. Learn to spot the signs of depression in women and find the treatment you need.

  6. 12 Things We Can Learn From the Great Depression - AOL

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    Tales of the Depression are woven with a common thread: Even though most people had very little, those with a little more helped those with a little less. Families who had fallen on hard times ...

  7. Paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions - Wikipedia

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    The anxieties characteristic of the depressive position shift from a fear of being destroyed to a fear of destroying others. In fact or phantasy, one now realizes the capacity to harm or drive away a person who one ambivalently loves. The defenses characteristic of the depressive position include the manic defenses, repression and reparation.

  8. List of bad luck signs - Wikipedia

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    Fear of the number 39 is known as the curse of 39, especially in Afghan culture. [7] The number 43. In Japanese culture, maternity wards numbered 43 are considered taboo, as the word for the number means "still birth". [8] The number 666. Fear of the number 666 is known as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia. Per Biblical prophecy, the "Number of The ...

  9. Social anxiety - Wikipedia

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    Social anxiety is the anxiety and fear specifically linked to being in social settings (i.e., interacting with others). [1] Some categories of disorders associated with social anxiety include anxiety disorders, mood disorders, autism spectrum disorders, eating disorders, and substance use disorders. [1]