How Does Freud Differ Humor From Jokes?

Froud: Humor shares the liberating feeling that is associated with jokes and the comic but it also has a kind of grandeur or elevation. It signifies not only the triumph of the ego, but also of the pleasure principle, which is able here to assert itself against the unkind ness of the real circumstances. When a humorist makes light of some one's concerns, he is behaving as an adult does towards a child,. He recognizes and smiles at the triviality of interests and sufferings which seem so great to him.