The witty remark , or flash of wit , is a fine and subtle counterpart, not always quite disposed.

Examples

• With the king Louis XVI which says to Rivarol: - One tells that you made witty remarks on all. Make on my subject , this last answers: - Lord, the king is not a subject.

• the table is the only place where one is never bored during the first hour , written Brillat-Savarin in its Physiologie of the taste (1825).

• Jean Cocteau, having seen to the theater the Soulier of Satin of Paul Claudel would have said: Heureusement that he did not write the pair.

The witty remark in Psychoanalysis

The witty remark was analyzed by Freud ( Witz ) and Lacan.

Mercedes Blanco shows that there exist faults in the construction industry freudienne. It indicates that the Witz was re-examined by Lacan, and it evokes the mediation of the linguist Roman Jakobson.

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