This article argues that in order to adequately understand what motivates viewers’ desire to become viscerally uneasy when watching the subgenre of cringe comedy, one must enlist the help of the later Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, whose work underscores a drive toward self-sabotage that exists beyond the pleasure principle. It demonstrates the fruits of this interpretive approach with a close reading of various kinds of British and American cringe comedies.

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超越快乐原则的电视：The Office （英国） 中的死亡驱动和其他令人畏缩的喜剧

本文认为，为了充分理解观众在观看畏缩喜剧这一子类型时产生发自内心的不安的动机，必须寻求后来的西格蒙德·弗洛伊德和雅克·拉康的帮助，他们的工作强调了一种超越快乐原则的自我破坏的驱动力。它通过仔细阅读各种英美畏缩喜剧来展示这种解释方法的成果。