Three’s A Crowd: 5 Small-Set Novels with Problematic Pairings

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Three’s A Crowd: 5 Small-Set Novels with Problematic Pairings

Freud is not exactly renowned for his sense of humour, but he had a lot to say about jokes. While most of his work was on the subconscious urges behind humour, he also had more substantive theories about the actual mechanisms of a joke. For a joke to ‘work’, claimed Freud, three parties need to be involved: the victim, the aggressor, and a third person who gains gratification from witnessing the victim’s subjugation. It is obviously a strain to …