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Psychologists Why some people give themselves as horror clowns
Evil clowns
Circus clowns and Kasperle delight children. Your joke is not always harmless. In the novel "ES" by Stephen King, a clown with red hair, fangs and claws terrorizes a city in America. Where is the evil in the clown??
Laughter can be evil, and a mask disguises crime. (Nito / fotolia.com) The unknown behind the mask
Infants are afraid of people who put on a mask, even if they know this person. Modern clowns put on make-up. Historically, such masquerades rarely served peaceful purposes: Facial masks were intended to unsettle strangers, they lack the facial expressions of real people.
Pogo the clown
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 - May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer. He raped and killed at least 33 boys and young men. Gacy was considered fond of children and appeared at children's parties as "Pogo, the Clown". For his crimes, he received 21 life sentences and 12 death sentences and was executed in 1994.
Role model for horror clowns
"Pogo the Clown" spread as a costume at Halloween parties in the US. Just because teachers and parents were horrified, the appeal for teens to disguise themselves as this murdering clown grew.
For fun becomes serious
The line between macabre humor and criminal behavior is difficult to draw. For decades, not only have people come to parties in horror clown costumes for Halloween, but few do not want to distinguish fiction from reality, dark jokes from crime.
Pathetic cowards
The perpetrators who disguise themselves as horror clowns, hunt, threaten or physically injure unknown persons, usually have similarities: they have little perspective in normal life, are "poor sausages", who feel powerful at the expense of the weaker. The mask gives them anonymity.
Laughing tears off the mask
Psychologist Isabella Heuser says: "For the perpetrators, the spreading of fear and terror is almost the most important thing. That's why they've already lost if an alleged victim simply laughs at them and does not take them seriously. "
Laughter is not always happy
Laughing at such grimaces has little to do with joy, because people laugh when they suffer a car accident and they laugh when their house is on fire. They laugh in delusion and madness and the deepest phases of desperation.
Laughter uninhibited
Paramedics tell jokes about bodies and laugh. Laughter is not just an expression of cheerfulness. It disinhibits, it loosens the muscles, it relieves the tension, makes dangerous situations bearable.
Laughing in delusion
Crazy laughter is also a hallmark of mental illness, for example, bipolar disorder in the manic phase and schizophrenia.
Laughter as aggression
Mocking laughter, demonic grin, and mocking giggles reveal others to ridicule. Anyone who laughs evil, it also escapes. He does not hold back his lust, he gives his aggression free rein.
Two laughs
A gentle smile with a closed mouth and an open look is sympathetic. A grin with bared teeth promises evil and can be understood as a threat of violence. If it combines with excitement, then we get goose bumps - our fur resists and we barefoot our teeth, not unlike chimpanzees.
The artist as a clown
The artist Jonathan Meese provokes with the Hitler salute and is considered by critics as a case for psychiatry. His art is described by journalists as a "stuffed boys room" and as a "horror cabinet between Charles Bronson and Slayer". Meese himself propagated the "dictatorship of art."
The terrible clown
He plays the role of the terrible clown, the Enfant Terrible, in the art world. The terrible child wants and can not offer any perspective on how to better organize society. Provocative sometimes seem unintentionally funny. At Meese, critics asked if he who seriously deals with the works of the art dictator does not make himself ridiculous.
The child and the horror
What connects the child with the fool and the clown with the horror? The child is underage, so it can not be held responsible for his actions. That's why it says, frankly, the truth that adults refrain from, on the other hand, it is cruel, without being aware of it.
Deadly joke
Why should jokes be deadly? Laughing at someone who suffers pervades the history of human cruelty.
Klaus Theweleit speaks of "laughter of the torturer". Soldiers in the war enjoy defiling the corpses of their enemies. They laugh when they drag their mutilated bodies through the streets. Who is exposed to evil laughter, loses his rights.
The theater of horror
Historians speak of the theater of horrors. To denounce torture as unexplainable or irrational and pathological does not mean to explain it, says Theweleit. Marqis de Sade, not a sadist but an enlightener, showed in "The 120 Days of Sodom" how the powerful enjoy the suffering of the helpless.
To ridicule someone is to have power over him or not to recognize his power.
Jokes devalue
Sigmund Freud realized that a joke defines social affiliation. Jokes defame minorities. Anyone who tells jokes about "Negroes" starts with violence against them. The line between fun and seriousness blurs. From the joke of the Jews to the pogrom, it is only a small step. (Dr. Utz Anhalt)