What happens when you blend the complexities of psychology with a dash of humor? Psychology Parodies: Humor in the Human Mind takes you on a side-splitting journey through the fascinating world of psychological concepts and theories. From Freud's quirky obsessions to Pavlov's drooling dogs, this book brings humor to the forefront of the human mind's most peculiar behaviors. Perfect for psychology enthusiasts and comedy lovers alike, this book turns the serious study of the mind into something that will leave you in stitches. Psychology Parodies is a humorous exploration of how our everyday thoughts, emotions, and social dynamics shape our lives. With witty takes on everything from Jung’s archetypes to cognitive biases, this book reveals the laughable side of psychology while providing insightful commentary on why we behave the way we do. Discover how humor serves as a coping mechanism, a social tool, and a window into the mind’s most curious quirks. What you will find in this book: A comedic twist on Freud's theories and psychoanalysis Jung's archetypes reimagined as characters in a comedy routine The absurdities of behavioral conditioning turned into punchlines Cognitive psychology’s mental gymnastics made laughable The social dynamics of humor and group behavior Why we laugh to keep from crying: the emotional side of comedy How personality influences our sense of humor The psychology behind why we find certain things funny Get ready to laugh, learn, and see the human mind in a whole new light! Psychology Parodies is a must-read for anyone curious about psychology, comedy, or the hilarious intersection of both.

What happens when you blend the complexities of psychology with a dash of humor? Psychology Parodies: Humor in the Human Mind takes you on a side-splitting journey through the fascinating world of psychological concepts and theories. From Freud's quirky obsessions to Pavlov's drooling dogs, this book brings humor to the forefront of the human mind's most peculiar behaviors. Perfect for psychology enthusiasts and comedy lovers alike, this book turns the serious study of the mind into something that will leave you in stitches. Psychology Parodies is a humorous exploration of how our everyday thoughts, emotions, and social dynamics shape our lives. With witty takes on everything from Jung's archetypes to cognitive biases, this book reveals the laughable side of psychology while providing insightful commentary on why we behave the way we do. Discover how humor serves as a coping mechanism, a social tool, and a window into the mind's most curious quirks. What you will find in this book: A comedic twist on Freud's theories and psychoanalysis Jung's archetypes reimagined as characters in a comedy routine The absurdities of behavioral conditioning turned into punchlines Cognitive psychology's mental gymnastics made laughable The social dynamics of humor and group behavior Why we laugh to keep from crying: the emotional side of comedy How personality influences our sense of humor The psychology behind why we find certain things funny Get ready to laugh, learn, and see the human mind in a whole new light! Psychology Parodies is a must-read for anyone curious about psychology, comedy, or the hilarious intersection of both.

Volume 10, dedicated to 'Comedy, Irony, Parody', celebrates the first decade of Comparative Criticism in a light-hearted vein. Michael Silk opens with a wide-ranging essay asserting the primacy of comedy and declaring its independence of tragedy. T. L. S. Sprigge explores philosophers who dared to write on laughter: Schopenhauer and Bergson. Bernard Harrison looks at the twentieth century's favourite comic novel, Tristram Shandy, in the light of Locke's views on 'the particular'. Peter Brand pursues the theatrical arts of disguises, masking, and gender-swapping through Renaissance Europe, from Ariosto to Shakespeare. Jane H. M. Taylor traces the danse macabre in modern 'black humour'. Christine Brooke-Rose, distinguished novelist and critic, reads from and comments on her own witty fictions. Michael Wood describes how Lolita outwitted her seducer.

This work traces the origins and evolution of the concept of humor in psychology from ancient to modern times with an emphasis on an experimental/empirical approach to the understanding of humor and sense of humor. In addition to more than 3,000 important citations and references pertaining to the history, theories, and definitions of the concept of humor, this reference guide contains more than 380 recent (post-1970) annotated entries on the psychology of humor in its bibliographic section. The book describes various psychological, nonpsychological, and philosophical theories and definitions of humor, and focuses on the methodological concerns of psychologists regarding the scientific investigation of humor. The bibliography is organized under 10 categories, including Bibliographies and Literature Reviews of Humor, Cognition and Humor, Methodology and Measurement of Humor, and Social Aspects of Humor.

Amusement is an emotion with power. It has the power to make us laugh, but it can also have a power over us (for good or for ill) to control our attention or memory. Amusement can empower our resistance to oppression, or it can itself become an oppressive force. Our amusement can make others feel shame. Amusement even has the power to affect (and be affected by) out moral assessment of others. This volume offers twelve essays from leading and emerging scholars that explore the moral quagmire that is the emotion of amusement. It is a collection that considers the moral psychology of amusement from a range of perspectives, going as far back as ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy up to the most current psychological and sociological findings.

The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov’s humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick, sexual and scatological humour Offers the first in-depth study of Nabokov’s humour Presents a revisionist reading of Nabokov Examines the metaphysical aspects of Nabokov’s humour Examines the sexual and scatological aspects of Nabokov’s humour Applies humour theory (e.g. those of Hobbes, Bergson, Freud) to Nabokov’s texts Compares Nabokov’s humour to that of his Russian predecessors (e.g. Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov) and to literary humourists such as Rabelais, Swift, Joyce Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced portrait, placing equal emphasis on the broader, earthier humour that is such a marked feature of Nabokov’s writing, which draws on the human body and all things physical for its laughs: sex and scatology, farce and slapstick. Moving between the metaphysical and the physical, the cosmic and the comic, mind and matter, it presents Nabokov as a writer at home in both high and low forms of humour, a comedian who is capable of producing as many belly laughs as brainteasers, and of appealing to a much wider readership than is commonly supposed.

This book argues that Old Comedy's parodic and non-parodic engagement with tragedy, satyr play, and contemporary lyric is geared to enhancing its own status as the preeminent discourse on Athenian art, politics and society. Donald Sells locates the enduring significance of parody in the specific cultural, social and political subtexts that often frame Old Comedy's bold experiments with other genres and drive its rapid evolution in the late fifth century. Close analysis of verbal, visual and narrative strategies reveals the importance of parody and literary appropriation to the particular cultural and political agendas of specific plays. This study's broader, more flexible definition of parody as a visual – not just verbal – and multi-coded performance represents an important new step in understanding a phenomenon whose richness and diversity exceeds the primarily textual and literary terms by which it is traditionally understood.

We all have the ability to recognize and create humour. But how do we do it? Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin have attempted to explain the workings of humour with their General Theory of Verbal Humor. How well does their theory explain the way humour ‘works’ in a particular text, and can it provide us with interesting, novel interpretations? By identifying and interpreting the narrative structures that create humour, this study tests the usefulness of Attardo & Raskin’s humour theory on a specific corpus of fabliaux, parodies and tragedies. Hamilton proposes a supplementation of the General Theory of Verbal Humor to create a means of undertaking what she calls a ‘humorist reading’. By posing the questions ‘why is this humorous?’, ‘how is it humorous?’ or ‘why is it not humorous?’ and providing the theoretical tools to answer them, a ‘humorist reading’ can make a valuable contribution to our understanding of a literary text and its place in society.

Drawing on current research in anthropology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and the humanities, Understanding the Human Mind explores how and why we, as humans, find it so easy to believe we are right—even when we are outright wrong. Humans live out their own lives effectively trapped in their own mind and, despite being exceptional survivors and a highly social species, our inner mental world is often misaligned with reality. In order to understand why, John Edward Terrell and Gabriel Stowe Terrell suggest current dual-process models of the mind overlook our mind’s most decisive and unpredictable mode: creativity. Using a three-dimensional model of the mind, the authors examine the human struggle to stay in touch with reality—how we succeed, how we fail, and how winning this struggle is key to our survival in an age of mounting social problems of our own making. Using news stories of logic-defying behavior, analogies to famous fictitious characters, and analysis of evolutionary and cognitive psychology theory, this fascinating account of how the mind works is a must-read for all interested in anthropology and cognitive psychology.