About the seriousness of laughter: the joke's relations with the unconscious in Freud and Schopenhauer’s Theory of Ludicrous

Authors

  • Eduardo Ribeiro da Fonseca Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Curitiba, PR

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378633943

Keywords:

Drive, Intellect, Humour

Abstract

One of the subjects of Schopenhauer‟s works and that deserve an analysis based on psychoanalysis is your Theory of Ludicrous, that exposes peculiar analysis about the intuitive and abstract intellects and, consequently, about the human language. Within this Schopenhauer's point of view about the humour, as one of its most characteristic expressions, there is the joke, theme that has interested Freud for a brief moment and gave him a beautiful and meaningful text about everyday expressions of the unconscious and that, thus elucidates the psychic expression of affects in terms of displacement and condensation.

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Author Biography

Eduardo Ribeiro da Fonseca, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Curitiba, PR

Doutor em Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea pela USP, escritor e tradutor. Professor de Filosofia da PUCPR.

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Eduardo Ribeiro da Fonseca. Curitiba: Ed. UFPR, 2014.

Published

2014-06-01

How to Cite

Fonseca, E. R. da. (2014). About the seriousness of laughter: the joke’s relations with the unconscious in Freud and Schopenhauer’s Theory of Ludicrous. Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy, 5(1), 09–16. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378633943

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