ABSTRACT.
This is a theoretical study that aims at analyzing the political implication of humor in contemporary work. For this purpose, Freud's psychoanalytical theory, the social critic reference and subjectivation are used to analyze the work in the contemporaneity. It is assumed that humor at organizations has as its main functionality to reveal the excesses and dogmas maintained by work, allowing the reinterpretation of them, and suggests changes in a work context that permeate the critic to the constituted power, inviting the collective to the creation of a new workspace. From the present study, it is noticed that humor inaugurates a new social speech, and its origin lies in the helplessness. It keeps the social function, but pursues the policy, without which it can not rise. Therefore, humor denounces hypocrisies and idealizations common to a group and dispossesses something previously established by either the subject or an institution or way of government. Describing the neoliberal political scenery, where the phallicist or managerial speech of work is placed, allowing recognizing in the humor social elements contributions to the contemporary labor work.
Keywords:
Humor; psychoanalysis; work