A Freudian study of Humor in Adam Elliot’s clay-animated black comedy-drama film: Mary and Max
Journal Title: Journal of Science and today’s world - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 11
Abstract
One of the widespread issues that human beings are constantly in contact with is the use of humor. Although people enjoy listening to or exchanging humorous give-and-takes, they are usually incapable of accounting for humor and its functions. Three general theories have been developed to fulfill this task, which are called Superiority, Incongruity and Freudian Relief Theory. Due to the inefficacy of the first two theories in explaining humor, this paper has chosen Relief Theory as the framework through which the movie Mary and Max is analyzed. The study attempts to claim that Adam Eliot, the director and writer of Mary and Max, benefits from humor or joke, (Freud uses these two words interchangeably) in order to criticize his social and religious aspects along with the individuals he is acquainted with simply by releasing his suppressed feelings through jokes.
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Noorbakhsh Hooti , Vahid Safiyan Boldaji
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