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Abstract
How to understand humor? What are its purpose and meaning? Is there anything psychoanalysis tells us about all this? Can we speak of humor in the context of understanding the dynamics of transference? Humor is known to be an ally of the analytic process. That is, healthy humor that belongs to Eros. Not all humor is a function of the life instinct. Humor may also be a function of Thanatos. That allows us (in the context of the analytic situation, in the realm of transference) to speak of the pathology of humor. In what follows, we will precisely look at the pathological forms of humor and their effects on the analytic situation.