Humor y melancolía, una indagación freudiana: peque ez, humildad y desventuras del cínico

Humor as a defensive mechanism against the adversities of a reality that lunge the human beings, it is a subject that could be developed with seriousness and depth by the father of the Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. As in “The Joke and its relation with the unconscious”, as in his essay “The Humor”, Freud achieves to make a careful analysis about the psychics particularities of the humoristic phenomenon. We have taken the task of relating this Freudian theory with the cynical philosophy, watching close the different anecdotes of Hellenistic cinism, particularly focusing about the matter of trifle, humility and the frugality, as possibility conditions for the appearance of the humorous. Also, there will be included the opinions of important thinkers about humor, and it will be shown the place that melancholy has on this phenomenon.