Humour - Sigmund Freud

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Like in his book on dreams, Freud begins "The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious" with a survey of expert opinions on the workings of humour. They include novelist Jean Paul, psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin, and philosophers, Theodor Vischer, Kuno Fischer, and Theodor Lipps. Their opinions include ways to view humour as "playful judgment", "a free play of ideas", "sense in nonsense", "bafflement and light dawning." Lipp emphsizes brevity, "wit says what it does say, not always in few, but always in too few words." This allows the listener the pleasure to figure things out. With more depth some of the opinions move closer to where Freud is heading. To have wit is to have "the ability to...find hidden similarities", and "linking two ideas which in some way are contrasted with each other."

Intro: 0:00
The Authorities: 0:48
The Pleasure Principle: 4:39
Contagion: 8:47
Unconscious processing: 10:15
Build up and release: 11:31
Displacement and condensation: 12:24
Self-deprecation: 13:56
The need for humour: 16:09
Outro: 17:57

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Humour (1927d) - Sigmund Freud

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