Response Assignment Four: Freud and Woody Allen

Length: One page
Due Date:  Wednesday, May 10, by 7:00 p.m. via email

Assignment

Develop a response to the following question, citing specific details from the reading to support your points. 

In Beyond Laughter, Martin Grotjahn explicates the concepts of wit, humor, and the comic outlined in Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious.  Identify at least one example of each concept--wit, humor and the comic--from Annie Hall or Bullets Over Broadway, explaining why your examples fit into specific categories.  In selecting your examples, you must not refer to scenes or jokes mentioned in lecture, although you may use examples from the Yacowar article on Annie Hall.