Rationale Of The Dirty Joke: An Analysis Of Sexual Humour - Volume I (With Introduction)

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A landmark work in the study of folk humour and psychosexual analysis, Rationale of the Dirty Joke presents an exhaustive and scholarly examination of sexual humour as a window into the human psyche and social condition. G. Legman, one of the twentieth century's most controversial and erudite folklorists, argues that the dirty joke is far more than mere vulgarity — it is a coded expression of desire, anxiety, aggression, and repression embedded deep within culture. Drawing on thousands of joke variants collected across decades, the work catalogues and interprets the hidden meanings behind sexual humour with a rigour that rivals academic psychology and anthropology. Written in a tone that is both authoritative and wryly knowing, this first volume with introduction sets the intellectual framework for what remains one of the most ambitious and daring works of cultural analysis ever published.