For the categories of tragic beauty and comic beauty, classical aesthetics not only discusses metaphysics, but also makes some exceptions to psychological analysis, such as Aristotle's definition of tragedy

The saying "the soul is edified through pity and fear" is here

"Mercy",

"Fear",

"Cultivation" is already a psychological concept. However, he is unable to follow similar psychological concepts in his discussion of comedy.

It was not used until the German classical aesthete Immanuel Kant

"Psychological anticipatory rebellious weightlessness" to discuss comedy, but it also exists

The disadvantages of "generalizing from partiality". In the general perception of society, people are also accustomed to using psychological concepts to explain tragic beauty and comedic beauty.

For example, the beauty of tragedy is described as the release of sad memories, and the beauty of comedy is described as the satisfaction of the desire for pleasure.

There is nothing wrong with this statement, but it stays on the superficial psychology. From a deep psychological point of view, tragic beauty and comedic beauty correspond to human beings' needs to look up and down on social objects.

Tragedy creates heroes, and tragic heroes are the objects that people look up to. In art, looking up has nothing to do with status, wealth, or knowledge, but mainly depends on whether he encounters tragedy and how he behaves in tragedy.

The sublime of other objects is also related to the unreachable, even to the sacrifice. Looking up is a basic psychological need of human beings, and looking up at tragic beauty is the highest way to realize this psychological need.

Comedic beauty is the opposite, corresponding to people's downlook psychology. In comedic beauty, most of the main characters are deliberately portrayed below the audience, so that the audience can quickly find out that they are funny, paradoxical, absurd, ignorant, self-righteous, and counterproductive.

This gives the viewer an affirmation of self-superiority, and the more they confirm, the more relaxed they become. Laughter is born from this sense of superiority and relaxation.

The audience's gaze in the beauty of comedy is also the highest way to realize a basic psychological need of human beings.

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