Derision
The mockery , increasingly sheer mockery , describes a strongly disparaging behavior towards others in communication. The saying “with scorn and mockery ” originally distinguished between contemptuous and ridiculous, today scorn is usually used to mean both. Related to the Hohn is further malice , however, the defamation in the heme part of an overall strategy profiling.
"The most painful thing about blows is [...] the mockery that accompanies them."
Mockery in social interaction usually serves to humiliate the other. He can (for example from above.) Through looks, gestures (such as the middle finger ), facial expressions (grin Tongue sticking out) or in a different way (about laughing at) be extensively but shown by language - already Goliat Israel said Derision .
Mockery is often picked up in the arts. Thus, in the visual arts is the Mocking of Christ a classic theme and Goethe's Mephistopheles mocks Faust just in its desperation extensively scene ( "Forest and Cave").
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- ↑ ... still say yes to life - a psychologist experiences the concentration camp, Munich 2019, p. 46.