![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The commanding superego would impede the ego from seeking pleasure for the id, or to momentarily adapt itself to the demands of reality, a mature coping method. Freud’s humor theory, like most of his ideas, was based on a dynamic among id, ego, and super-ego. A very harsh superego suppressed humor altogether. A benevolent superego allowed a light and comforting type of humor, while a harsh superego created a biting and sarcastic type of humor. The superego allowed the ego to generate humor. In Freud's view, jokes (the verbal and interpersonal form of humor) happened when the conscious allowed the expression of thoughts that society usually suppressed or forbade. In fact, he sorted humor into three categories that could be translated as: joke, comic, and mimetic. In the 1905 book Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious ( German: Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewußten), as well as in the 1928 journal article Humor, Freud distinguished contentious jokes from non-contentious or silly humor. Sigmund Freud noticed that humor, like dreams, can be related to unconscious content. ![]()
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