Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious
work by Freud
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approach to humour, wit, and laughter
- In comedy: The role of wit
Sigmund Freud, for example, in Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious (1905), said that wit is made, but humour is found. Laughter, according to Freud, is aroused at actions that appear immoderate and inappropriate, at excessive expenditures of energy: it expresses a pleasurable sense of the superiority felt on…
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