The Yield of Humorous Pleasure

Freud writes that the expenditure on feeling that is economized turns into humorous pleasure. It's the same economic process by which libido is transformed into anxiety in anxiety neurosis. But as you say, this essay really harks back to the joke and its relation to the unconscious. Let's now look closely at the text. How does freud begin the morfroy? Freud begins by distinguishing two different ways by which the humorous process can take place. He writes that we are affected at long range. As a spectator or a non participating listener, in freud's formulation, he writes that we feel like him.