Wit
In the wit field plays the "economy of censorship expenditure"(Freud literally calls it "the economy of psychic expenditure".); usually censorship prevents some 'dangerous ideas' from reaching the conscious mind, or helps us avoid saying everything that comes to mind; adversely, the wit circumvents the censorship and brings up those ideas. Different wit techniques allow one to express them in a funny way. The profound meaning behind a wit joke is "I have dangerous ideas". An example from Woody Allen:
“ I contemplated suicide again - this time by inhaling next to an insurance salesman. ”
Or, when a bagpipe player was asked "How do you play that thing?" his answer was:
“ Well. ”
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