This article aims to reflect on Francesco Orlando’s freudian theory, focusing in particular on some models developed for the analysis of comic discourse considered in some of its nuances (comedy, jokes, humour, irony). Our main concern was to highlight the formal nature of these models, which ignore any content that has to do with the personal unconscious of the autor or characters, and the need for a historicist approach that considers the psychic configuration returned by a literary text as an epochal symptom. Precisely with regard to this last point, it was interesting to reflect on the possible misunderstandings which, given different historical and psychological conditions, can mislead the interpretation of the comic effects (or presumed such) of a text distant in time or space.
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