Variants of the Comic and their Usefulness in Treatment

• Published in: Desde el jardín de Freud : revista de psicoanálisis no. 17; p. 19
• Main Author: Muraro, Vanina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Bogota Universidad Nacional de Colombia 01.01.2017
• Subjects: Humor; Philosophy; Psychoanalysis

The objective of this article is to describe the usefulness for clinical practice of the different expressions of the comic. It begins by identifying what Freud calls the “Janus face” ofWitz, in order to be able to distinguish the diverse forms of the comic dealt with in his treatise “Jokes and thei...