{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 55/1906-11-08/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Think once more of a tragedy. The poet can only create such a work of art if he has the capacity to go out of himself, to widen his soul and encompass the suffering of others. The poet must be able to experience the suffering of others as if it were his own. But now compare this attitude with a very different one–not however with what inspires comedy—that would not be the right comparison. Rather compare it with the attitude that inspires caricature; that too in a sense belongs to the realm of art. The caricaturist distorts what is expressed outwardly of what lives in another soul, perhaps with ridicule and derision. Let us now imagine two persons, one of whom sees an event or a human being as tragic, the other who sees the situation in caricature. It is no mere simile when we say that the artist as tragic poet goes out of himself, allowing his soul to become ever more encompassing. But what is it that individuals attain through this ever widening of their inner being? They attain understanding of the other. Nothing provides greater understanding than experiencing another person's suffering as one's own. But what about the caricaturist? He cannot enter into the other person's feeling; on the contrary, he must reject, must set himself above it. The refusal to consider the other person's inner life is basic to caricature. No one can fail to see that compassion leads to understanding of the other, whereas caricature reveals the nature of the caricaturist. We learn through his work far more about his feeling of superiority, wit, and power of observation and imagination, than we learn about the nature of his subject.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. The Origin of Suffering","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-11-08","location":null,"word_count":284,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/55/1906-11-08/p013","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Supersensible Knowledge","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA055/English/AP1987/19061108p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Wir werden hier symptomatisch auf einesolcheErscheinung hinweisen müssen, die vielleicht kaum damit zusammenzuhängen scheint, wenn wir uns jedoch intimer auf die menschliche Natur einlassen, werden wir sehen, daß auch diese Erscheinung auf die Bedeutung gewisser Seiten des Leides hinweisen wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":102,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/55/1906-11-08/p011"},{"locus":"GA 55/1906-11-08/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Denken Sie noch einmal an das tragische Kunstwerk, das Trauerspiel, das nur entstehen kann, wenn sich des Dichters Seele weit, weit öffnet, aus sich herausgeht und lernt, fremdes Leid mitzuempfinden, fremdes Leid auf die eigene Seele abzulagern. Und nun vergleichen Sie diese Empfindung nicht etwa bloß mit dem Lustspiele — da werden wir keinen guten Vergleich herausbekommen —, sondern mit etwas, was in gewisser Weise auch zur Kunst gehört: mit der Stimmung, aus der die Karikatur fließt, die vielleicht mit Spott und Hohn dasjenige im Zerrbilde zeigt, was in der Seele des anderen vorgeht und in die äußere Wirksamkeit tritt. Versuchen wir es, uns zwei Menschen vor die Seele hinzustellen, von denen der eine ein Ereignis oder einen Menschen tragisch ergreift, der andere als Karikatur erfaßt. Nicht ein bloßer Vergleich, nicht ein bloßes Bild ist es, wenn wir sagen, die Seele des tragischen Dichters und Künstlers erscheint uns, wie wenn sie aus sich herausginge und weiter und weiter würde. Was aber eröffnet sich ihr durch dieses Weiterwerden? Das Verständnis des anderen Menschen. Durch nichts versteht man das Leben des anderen mehr, als wenn man seinen Schmerz auf die eigene Seele ablagern läßt. 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