The coupling of dissimilar thingsįreud notes that a classic definition of joking is “the ability to find similarity between dissimilar things – that is, hidden similarities” (4). While Freud worries that there’s no unified theory that relates all the criteria and characteristics to one another, I’m trying to clarify these characteristics to get a better handle on his theory. The succession of bewilderment and enlightenment/illumination.In this installment, I go into the second set of criteria and characteristics of jokes from from Jean Paul Richter, Theodor Vischer, Kuno Fischer, and Theodor Lipps, that “ to us at first sight so very much to the point and so easily confirmed by instances” that we can easily accept them (6): I’m using this blog to make public my notes, both to help people to understand the theories as well as to help me clarify in my own mind what philosophers and theorists have said about comedy, humor, jokes, etc. This is the second of several installments on Sigmund Freud’s Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905 free eBook) – and the reactions to it.
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