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It is not a mere comparison, not a mere picture when we say that the soul of the tragic poet and artist appears as if it went out of itself and became wider and wider. What, however, is revealed to the soul through this expansion? The understanding of the other person. One understands the life of another through nothing so much as by taking upon one's own soul the burden of his pain. But what must one do if one wants to caricature? One must not go into what the other feels, one must set oneself above it, drive it away, and this driving from oneself is the basis of the caricature. No-one will deny that just as through tragic compassion the other personality becomes deeply comprehensible, what appears in the caricature is what lives in the personality of the caricaturist. We learn to know the superiority, the wit, the power of observation, the phantasy of the one caricaturing rather than the one caricatured.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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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. Was muß man aber tun, wenn man karikieren will? Man darf nicht eingehen auf das, was die andere Seele fühlt, man muß sich über sie stellen, sie von sich weisen, und dieses Vonsichweisen ist die Grundlage des Zerrbildes. Niemand wird leugnen, daß, ebenso wie uns durch das tragische Mitleid die andere Persönlichkeit tief verständlich wird, durch die Karikatur dasjenige vor uns auftritt, was in der Seele der eigenen Persönlichkeit des Karikierenden lebt. 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