The sense of humor is one of the most appreciated qualities, precisely because of its rarity, people who know how to joke and make others laugh are like medicines for themselves and others, able to refresh even the bitterest moments of life. it is a great virtue and an automatic mechanism and not always conscious, really useful for releasing accumulated tensions.
Laughter frees us because it allows us to be spontaneous and essentially has a joking component. A single laughing session is much more relaxing than the tasks we plan for the same purpose. Thus, laughter and a sense of humor have this magical ability to renew ourselves and improve our will to face the world.
“Where there is no sense of humor there is dogma? -Alfonso Ussa-
Sigmund Freud gave jokes and laughter a very important role in psychoanalytic theory, he discovered that, through these funny moments of daily life, the unconscious expresses himself clearly, so that what gives us grace also reveals our deepest desires and feelings.
People make fun of surprising situations, in which, from something more or less absurd, a new message is constructed that makes sense, or on the contrary: when an absurd sense of something perfectly coherent arises.
What causes laughter in a misunderstanding plays a key role. This misunderstanding comes from the double senses, in general. This, in turn, results in three types of jokes or laughter: funny or spiritual commentary; bloodsained or too innocent; and the joke?sexual or obscene content.
Freud also discovered that censorship breaks with the joke. The joke helps bring more or less taboo issues or situations in the “serious” world to the debate. Many jokes express aggressive or sexual content, which would be intolerable in other situations. Context.
Like this joke
An intermediary introduces his client to the woman he has decided to marry. The young man, unpleasantly impressed, tells his agent, “What did you bring me here?!She’s ugly, old, tanned, snug and ??? Can you speak out loud?”Does she interrupt the other – is she so deaf?.
Ridiculousness arises when there is a disproportion between the elements that make up a situation, it is the case of clowns, who wear huge and very funny shoes, it is also the case of a parade on one of the great catwalks (Paris, Milan, Madrid, etc. ), in which someone stumbles.
Comedians ridicule powerful characters by imitating famous characters and situations, usually these imitations seek to exaggerate an aspect that has happened to this personality, expressing scathing and often extremely aggressive criticisms, but are tolerated because they contribute to catharsis: tools available to citizens in front of power.
An example of this type of joke or imitation is
Mother and son: ? Son, never lie, people who lie will never be anything in life. So why do we vote for candidates who never keep their promises?
Play and ridicule, by imitation, are instruments that allow us to question behaviors, take their merit and expose them without fear, however, when addressing a vulnerable person, the effect is reversed: it establishes a vertical power relationship, which victimizes those who are vulnerable. It’s the classic “laughing at people, not with them. “
The sexual issue is a constant in many jokes, especially using the “double meaning”: on the one hand it is an affirmation that has nothing to do with sex, but on the other hand it has everything to do with it.
Two friends meet and one tells the other :?Yesterday I got home and Caught my wife in bed with a very strong guy, the thing is, to my surprise, the worm came up to me, pulled my neck and pushed me aside, then made a line on the floor and said:?If you walk on that line, I’ll kill you. Then he went back to bed with my wife, to continue with what they were doing. What did you do?!? I?Who do you think this guy is? Every time I didn’t look, I’d walk on the line!
Two-way jokes with sexual content make you laugh because they highlight a topic that is still taboo, in the example above, without the subject itself, what makes us laugh is the mind to make the other think about sex, without that being subject, using a spiritual form.
But naive and innocent jokes also make you laugh, precisely because of the candor or evidence they convey.
A baby bat tells his friend
? What’s your name?
? ? Go? ? The second responds.
? ? Come? ? asks again the first
? “Go to pyrotechnics. ” It’s you?
? My name, another one?
? ? Another what?
? “Another virus piro”.
These innocent jokes have a “white” form of humor, because their meaning is not based on camouflaged aggression or a double meaning that breaks with a taboo, but on pure spirituality, on something pure. Basically, they’re mental language games.
Humor is a valuable way to express ideas. However, there is still controversy over its limitations, is it appropriate at all times?Is it true even when it represents a way to stigmatize a group, as is the case with sexual jokes?Can a sense of humor generate deadly hatreds like what happened in Charlie Hebdo magazine’s pitiful events?The debate is open.