Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this study of humour, is that jokes, like dreams, satisfy our unconscious desires. This text explains how jokes provide immense pleasure by releasing us from our inhibitions and allowing us to ex...
A graphic tale presented through the collaborative efforts of a slam poet and the creator of Hothead Paisan follows the experiences of nineteen-year-old Sasha, who after losing her father to cancer, takes a form-filling job at a hospital, w...
Freud argues that the "joke-work" is intimately related to the "dream-work" which he had analyzed in detail in his "Interpretation of Dreams", and that jokes (like all forms of humor) attest to the fundamental orderliness of the human mind.