Next is the Interpretation of Dreams, the Psychopathology of Everyday Life, one of the books that forms the basis of psychoanalytic thought. For jokes, Freud says, what makes us laugh and give us pleasure in jokes is that jokes serve to disguise and cover up more serious issues. Thanks to humor, we release our suppressed desire. People who say that there is some truth in every joke in the society have learned this situation with this book of Freud. In jokes, like dreams, “condensation” is used, a lot is explained with few words. With the process of “Replacing”, sexual and aggressive impulses appear in disguise in jokes. In this way, it can bypass censorship. With “Oppose” we see the process of representation that changes thought.
It divides jokes into innocent and deliberate. If the purpose of the joke is itself, the joke is innocent. Intentional jokes, on the other hand, contain hostility and sexual desire and skepticism. In short, deliberate jokes are created with an intention. He talks about the social dimensions of deliberate jokes. It has to be ‘third person’. This is the person who enjoys the joke. The joker also gets pleasure, but this pleasure is hidden.
