ABSTRACT
Crying and laughing are expressions of experiences in childhood; that is, before the ego and the actual geneses require strict straight-forwardness and rigid regulation of the inner adaptation to inner assertion. Crying also expresses, increasingly more in adults, a new meaning in complete contrast to the original. Crying is less loud; the warding-off movements of eyes, nose and mouth become less and less, but the derivation from baby crying is not canceled. Laughing and crying contain the elements of creative freedom of man: laughing in its relation to the spontaneity of play and crying in the surrender of the self, which prepares the acceptance of a new meaning or a new idea. Laughter and crying overcome crises in the body-soul-spkit unit of the person, that is, in the inner adaptation between the systems, if we formulate it in the language of biosemiotics.
