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comedy about divorce  

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  • Humor often serves as a tool for people to express ideas and opinions that might otherwise be considered taboo. For example, the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, constructed humor as a socially validated way for people to express anger, disgust, aggression, and sexual impulses. [Source: Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopedia; Comedy about Divorce]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-MRB6BQ49-C

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