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In 1899, Bergson pointed out in his articles on laughter that it erupts when the living suddenly behaves like things, like the inanimate. He notes a necessary insensibility of the one who is laughing, and the asociability of the person one is laughing about, who seems to be caught up in an automatism. Subsequent to the second drive theory, this brutal return to the inanimate is reminiscent of the death drive in which laughter is born of satisfaction. Inasmuch as laughter is a wonderful antidote to vanity, it is anti-narcissistic. Applying it to oneself, in other words showing that one has a sense of humour, therefore has the character of a sublimation. Destroying one’s own image has the compensation of seducing the spectators and of protecting oneself by anticipating their possible criticisms.