Jokes and the Logic of the Cognitive Unconscious

Freud's theory of jokes explains how they overcome the mental "censors" that make it hard for us to think "forbidden" thoughts. But his theory did not work so well for humorous nonsense as for other comical subjects. In this essay I argue that the different forms of hu...

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Main Author: Minsky, Marvin
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5701