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Humor is a Chinese word, pronounced y?u mò, which is interesting or ridiculous and meaningful. It first appeared in Qu Yuan's Nine Chapters of Huaisha.

Humor often brings joy to people, and its main characteristics are wit, self-mockery, ridicule and humor. Indeed, humor helps to eliminate hostility, ease friction and prevent contradictions from escalating. Others believe that humor can also stimulate morale and improve production efficiency.

A company in Colorado, USA, confirmed through investigation that the output of middle-level supervisors who participated in humor training increased by 15% within 9 months, while sick leave was reduced by half. Tests have proved that there are differences between boring people and people with a sense of humor in the following aspects, and these differences are precisely the psychological adjustment function and function of a sense of humor.

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According to Freud's theory, humor can express repressed thoughts in a socially permissible way. In his book Jokes and Their Relationship with the Subconscious, he pointed out that through humor, individuals can freely express their attacks ("pranks") or sexual desires without worrying about the counterattack of ego or superego. When telling jokes, because the energy of anti-spiritual catharsis is no longer needed, this energy is released in laughter.

Jokes, like dreams, are usually forgotten quickly because they are also used to deal with "dangerous" things. In fact, in order to make people laugh, a joke must contain something that stimulates anxiety. According to Freud, we can only laugh at some annoying things.

A test of American humor shows that sex, extinction and death are the public's favorite themes, which may show a Freudian believer that they contain a lot of repressed thoughts. In fact, in their words, if you want to know what is repressed in a person's subconscious, you just need to test what kind of humor this person likes.

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