Indifference and Complicity

Abstract

In contrast to the comical, which isdual, Freud grants jokes the statusof a social activity by virtue ofthe participation of a third party,whose function is to validate thejoke by complying with a subjectivecondition: “a certain complicityor a certain indifference” withrespect to the person telling thejoke. Thus, Freud sets the stagefor the reflections contained inthis paper, which focuses on theexperience of concentration campsand the “production” of a thirdparty that supports the confusionbetween victim and executioner.The discussion makes it possibleto outline the double incidence ofcapitalist discourse with respect tothe subject and to the social fabric.

Keywords

• Complicidad
• discurso capitalista
• indiferencia
• tercero
• zona gris.