Is it the case that we judge something to be offensive, but because you interpret it as funny, you then don't think it's offensive, or does it by pass te offensiveness altogether? That's what's not clear, yes. And it's also a conceptual point whereat. So there's te the cognitive mechanisms that are going on, suming like that's the right way to think about this. But i also think, like ie, i remember you were talking about the chapel special, the most recent one, and one of the things that you found distasteful about some of the trans jokes weret was that they weren't funny. If they're not funny and
David and Tamler confront their shadows and dive into Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious. What are the central differences between Jung and Freud? What did Jung mean by archetypes and what’s his evidence for their centrality in the human psyche? How can we integrate elements of our unconscious and avoid projecting them onto the world? Can Jung’s ideas tell us anything about culture wars and relationships?
Plus, an fMRI study on offensive humor – I thought you were stronger Batman!
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Links:
- Bartolo, A., Ballotta, D., Nocetti, L., Baraldi, P., Nichelli, P. F., & Benuzzi, F. (2021). Uncover the Offensive Side of Disparagement Humor: An fMRI Study. Frontiers in Psychology, 5268. — Uncover the Offensive Side of Disparagement Humor: An fMRI Study
- The Concept of the Collective Unconscious by Carl Jung
- Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 1): Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious — Tamler and David read Chapters 1-4 of this volume. (PDFs can be found if you dig around online, but we didn't want to link to any sketchy sites).
- Weird Studies Episode 73: Carl Jung and the Power of Art, Part One