Reflections On Laughing

Bain, Alexander , Les Emotions et la volonté, 1859.

Bergson, Henri , Le Rire, 1899.

Cazamian , The Development of English Humor, 1930.

Escarpit, Robert , L'Humour, 2nd edition, 1981.

Freud, Sigmund , Le Mot d'esprit dans ses rapports avec l'inconscient, first published in German 1905; 1st French edition by Marie Bonaparte , 1933.

Jankelevitch, Vladimir , L'ironie, 1936.

Jeanson, Henri , Signification humaine du rire, 1948.

Koestler, Arthur , The Cry of Archimedes, 1st ed. (in English), 1964.

Sauvy, Alfred , Humour et politique, 1979.

Spencer, Herbert , Essays, vol. 1. Physiology of laughing, 1891.

Fourastie, Jean , Le Rire, suite, Denoël, Paris.