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==[[:Category: Freudian Dictionary|Freudian Dictionary]]==
<blockquote>Thus, according to our assumption, the conditions for laughter are such that a sum of psychic energy hitherto employed in the cathexis of some paths may experience free discharge. And since not all laughter (but surely the laughter of wit), is a sign of pleasure, we shall be inclined to refer this pleasure to the release of previously existing cathetic energy.<ref>{{WRU}} Ch. V</ref></blockquote>
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<blockquote>Thus, according to our assumption, the conditions for laughter are such that a sum of psychic energy hitherto employed in the cathexis of some paths may experience free discharge. And since not all laughter (but surely the laughter of wit), is a sign of pleasure, we shall be inclined to refer this pleasure to the release of previously existing cathetic energy.<ref>{{WRU}} Ch. V</ref></blockquote>
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