Humor, Laughter and Human Flourishing by Mordechai Gordon

Author:Mordechai Gordon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

In this quote, Merleau-Ponty rejects the notion that abstract constructs such as the phallus can determine behavior (like acts of aggression toward our parents); yet he also denies that dreams, jokes, and other human phenomena somehow signify something beyond the experience of these things. In other words, Merleau-Ponty rejected the view of Freud and other psychoanalysts that there is a transcendent world, which needs to be discovered (or interpreted) and constitutes the true reality behind phenomena such as dreams or slips of the tongue. As opposed to Freud, phenomenologists believe that dreams, jokes, and other phenomena are significant in themselves. In order to ascertain the meaning of these phenomena, phenomenologists hold, we need to look at how human beings experience and make sense of them.

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