In humor, we find the capacity to hold the tragic and the ab... - D.W. Winnicott

"In humor, we find the capacity to hold the tragic and the absurd simultaneously without being destroyed by either."

D.W. Winnicott Humor

Psychoanalyst British 1896–1971

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