Freud felt all jokes at bottom had for their purpose,
however hidden, either hostility or exposure—all jokes, in other words, for him
are ultimately acts of aggression or derision. I don’t happen to believe that.
Michael Krasny quotes Theodor Reik remarking that all Jewish jokes are about
“merciless mockery of weakness and failing.” I don’t believe that, either. What
I do believe is W. H. Auden saying that the motto of psychology ought to be
“Have you heard this one?”
Joseph Epstein, "Jokes:
A Genre of Thought"
https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/2411/jokes-a-genre-of-thought/
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