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The word humor is a translation of Greek χυμός, [3] chymos (literally 'juice' or 'sap', metaphorically 'flavor'). Early texts on Indian Ayurveda medicine presented a theory of three or four humors (doṣas), [4] [5] which they sometimes linked with the five elements (pañca-bhūta): earth, water, fire, air, and space. [6]
Relief theory suggests humor is a mechanism for pent-up emotions or tension through emotional relief. In this theory, laughter serves as a homeostatic mechanism by which psychological stress is reduced [1] [2] [6] Humor may thus facilitate ease of the tension caused by one's fears, for example.
The theory stated that within every individual there were four humours, or principal fluids – black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood, these were produced by various organs in the body, and they had to be in balance for a person to remain healthy. Too much phlegm in the body, for example, caused lung problems; and the body tried to cough ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Humor theory may refer to: Humorism, an ancient and medieval medical theory that there are four body fluids;
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Ilya Stallone takes the quirky charm of medieval art and mashes it up with the chaos of modern life, creating comics that feel both hilarious and oddly timeless. Using a style straight out of ...
For example, in the Bible (Ezekiel) men are advised to not have sex with a woman who is menstruating. The passage states that "a good man" should "not to lie with a menstruous woman". [3] This could be interpreted as an example of the stigmatisation of menstruation, and how menstrual blood was considered to be dirty and not pure.
A famous example is Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917), an inverted urinal signed "R. Mutt". This became one of the most famous and influential pieces of art in history, and one of the earliest examples of the found object movement. It is also a joke, relying on the inversion of the item's function as expressed by its title as well as its ...