Abstract:
This work proposes parallels between Freud’s interpretation of humor and the concept of sinthoma in Lacan. Joycean experimentation with writing was of interest to Psychoanalysis, even producing effects, as is the case with the Lacanian differentiation between symptom and sinthome. Eastern European Jewish culture and perplexity at the collapse of an empire provided material for Kafka’s humor and Freudian humor theory. With Kafka and Joyce, literature invents literary forms of lightness that concern psychoanalytic research.
Keywords:
humor; superego; sinthome