HUMOR / Topic / Politics

Paper · Semantic Scholar

ABSTRACT Amidst stabs at humor, this paper highlights the costs of over-idealizations in psychoanalysis: stifling free discussion and complexity and reinforcing existing tendencies toward rigid hierarchies and insider/outsider dynamics. Instead, it calls for a dose of irreverence and skepticism. Various motivations for excessive reverence are explored, including feelings of belonging and inclusion, security through …

Reference · Wikidata

short fictional story with the intent to make people laugh