Abstract

WEBER, Samuel. Laughing on the Meanwhile. Acta poét [online]. 2010, vol.31, n.1, pp.165-189. ISSN 2448-735X.

This essay deals with the issue of laughter in Plato, Henri Bergson, and Sigmund Freud. Specifically, the author analyses the relationship between the comic and laughter presented by Freud in his work Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, showing how jokes evoke laughter through a series of different psychoanalytic aspects and also displaying the importance of verbal tenses in discourse by revealing how do they work and produce laughter.

Keywords : laughter; joke; unconscious.