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The author offers several drawings to demonstrate that pictorial economy results in an economy of psychic energy in the observer. He is saved from a more confusing or complex problem. Analogies are drawn from Freud's theory of wit. He adds: 'Formal æsthetic pleasure is economy of expenditure of psychic energy in perception.'