ЮМОР В ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ УКРАИНСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ
Authors: Грабарчук О. Н. , Рибачук Н. В. 
Published: October 2018

An integral part of any person’s life is humor. It makes our life more attractive, it hides a huge potential of vitality, wherein humor is a risk zone, where it can be presented as something devastating and derogative.The last 4 years of the most difficult social and political processes of Ukrainian reality we can observe a splash of interest to humorous programs of various kinds. Several separate channels began its functioning by offering to view only comical and funny content. This phenomenon makes one to think about humor specifics, about necessity of interaction with the comic, about its importance not only for one person but for the whole country. Thus, the aim of the research is to determine the place of the humor in the contemporary Ukrainian culture.The humor subject is well represented in the history of the humanitarian sciences, however, due to the ambiguity of the subject of the study, this topic remains open for further researches. There are three main theories of humor, such as consolation theory, superiority theory and discrepancy theory. And each theory finds its own proponent.The main statement of the consolation theory is that humor is a way to cope with inner tension and the opportunity to get a pleasure from laughing. In the superiority theory the sense of satisfaction from the excellence while observing a fun person as a week, stupid, unsuccessful takes the first place. In the discrepancy theory the contrast between expected and real is important for understanding the humor nature, detecting the discrepancies of our ideas about things (concepts, categories) to its real embodiments, that in the end bring out the laugh. The success of the joke is the success of finding the hidden absurdity in it.Ukrainian science also provides some developments in this sphere. Annual scientific and theoretical conference devoted to the humor theme takes place in Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University. The question of comical in human being and its cognition as well as forms of comical in literature and art are raised.To our mind, tragic social processes, which were taking place in Ukraine over the last 4 years, with no doubt lead to a rapid increase of society tension. In such conditions laugh is a good way to cope with negative consequences, as pointed in the consolation theory, humor and laugh are the opportunity to protect themselves painlessly, specifically Ukrainian society, from mental overload. As Freud pointed out, humor, irony and comic offer us a quick way not only to relieve tension, but also to get a pleasure, to live through the moment being happy. The moment of happiness and pleasure, the experience of consolation are the factors that determine the comical in the rank of priorities when choosing a particular discourse in conditions of the complex tragic situation.As any psychological protection the comical has two sides. To a certain moment, laugh is a relief from pain, as a result it becomes the cause of psychological anesthesia, the inability to fully experience the feelings and emotions that correspond to the situation context.However, this particularity of contemporary individual is connected not so with humor as with its overabundance. Also it is connected with overabundance of the information which is consumed in conditions of the informative society and society of consuming.On the other hand, humor supports Ukrainian society by contributing the stabilization of the social processes. Apparently, ironic discourse, which captured TV screens and Ukrainian YouTube, is the rescue for the Ukrainians and it proves one more time the ideas about consolation theory of humor.