Filth
Zoten are suggestive jokes , often with sexual content. The Duden defines Zote as a crude, obscene joke "which is perceived as offensive to good taste ".
Concept history
Word origin
The term appears towards the end of the 15th century in the Nuremberg Carnival Game , in the 16th / 17th century. Century farce books and 1523 when Martin Luther and 1551 Caspar Scheidt occupied, first in the phrase Zot (ed) tear , something filthy do make crude jokes', this might be borrowed from French sot (t) he "farce" . Another possible origin is villi , meaning “matted tufts of hair stuck together by dirt and excrement, pubic hair ”. The distinction between zot and villus in the writing emerges since about 1700.
Psychological approaches to interpretation
The first scientific definition of this joke category comes from Sigmund Freud . Freud explains his view that the Zote primarily serves the goal that the narrator can shift his own (mostly sexual) interest to the listener without having to fear social sanctions . It is sometimes possible for the narrator to sexually arouse the listener without being reprimanded for it. Since the Zote simultaneously advances a further content, which is a secondary component of the joke, the intention of the narrator is concealed.
Literary quote
“I have never understood the general pleasure in the filth, but always considered the excess of the mouth to be the most repulsive, because it is the most frivolous and cannot use passion as an excuse. It is just as if it were the simplest, most ridiculous object in the world when you hear people joke and whine, when the exact opposite is the case and they talk about these things in a cheeky, carelessly flirting tone The most important and most mysterious matter of nature and life would be to hand over to the mob's whining. "
See also
Web links
- The quota of the Zote ( Memento from February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) ( Eulenspiegel 12/99)
Individual evidence
- ^ Zote in duden.de, accessed on January 16, 2013
- ^ Friedrich Kluge , Etymological Dictionary of the German Language , 24th edition, edited by Elmar Seebold, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2002, p. 1016 Zote
- ^ Friedrich Kluge, Etymological Dictionary of the German Language , 18th edition, edited by Walther Mitzka, de Gruyter, Berlin 1960, p. 891 Zote
- ↑ Wolfgang Pfeifer & al., Etymological Dictionary of German , 4th edition of the paperback edition, dtv, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-32511-9 , p. 1623 Zote & Villus
- ↑ The joke and its relation to the unconscious ; Vienna, Leipzig; 1905