Humor has many theories to explain what
would be considered humorous, because there are many people who don’t have
sense of humor. Theories that explain the existence of humor are: psychological
theories, considering humor to be very healthy and spiritual theories,
considering the humor is a “gift from god”. Various classical theories of humor
and laughter may be found: relief theory, superiority theory and incongruity
theory.
The relief theory states laughter is a
mechanism to reduce your tension. For example, humor facilitates reliefing your
tension caused by your fear.
The superiority theory says that people laugh
about misfortunes of others because when a bad thing happens to a person, the
other person laughs because the person thinks he or she is superior.
Aristoteles thought, people laughed at inferior or ugly people because people
fell superior to them. Plato thought it was a display of self-ignorance.
The incongruity theory considered
laughter as a response to the perception of incongruity. Perceived incongruity
is between a concept and the real object it represents, but concept as an
“appearance” and belived that laughter totally negates that appearance.
Laughter is an “economical phenomenon” whose functions is to release “psychic
energy” that has been wrongly mobilized by incorrect or false expections.
The humor can be a form of defense
mechanism, a set of expressions of ideas and feelings that give pleasure to
others. Humor has many theories, but no one exactly explains what is that or if
that exists. I tkink this happens because there are many people who don’t
believe in humor