Whether or not you are interpreting the goals to be funny, it's so contex dependent. It's a pretty complex, complex calculation that we're making when we're hearing these jokes. If you go in prepared to be offended, you're not going to find things funny and you're going to find them offensive. But they might be able to win you over if they engaged that laugh, like that primitive laughing part of their act. The fact is, some people just aren't as funny as other people. And so they have the same intention to be funny when t make there like, races or anti semitic or sexus joke, it's just that they're not funny,. So
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