Wit and Its Relationship to the Unconscious
A treatment of Freud's classic work on the psychological roots of humor, this tape is a loosely strung series of jokes and anecdotes performed by a group of artists. The stories are not analyzed directly, but rather are worked into by Boord who juxtaposes, cuts and selects funny, awful, poorly told, and nearly perfect renditions of familiar jokes covering a range of subjects that form a broad parody of Freudian theory. The tape features excerpts of a performance of Mahler's 5th Symphony by the La Jolly Symphony Orchestra and an unforgettable story told by Alan Kaprow featuring Marcel Duchamp, Paul Brock and a couple of Monte Cristos.