Desire and Fate

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Desire and Fate

Desire and Fate

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May 10, 2023
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Freud thought that jokes allows people to utter things that would otherwise be stuck and repressed. Like dreams, he believed they satisfy our unconscious desires, releasing us from our inhibitions and allowing us to express sexual, aggressive, playful, or cynical instincts that would otherwise remain hidden. But in our age, no one seeks to hide anything…

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