Wit and Its Relation to the UnconsciousThis is Volume X of twenty-eight in a collection on Psychoanalysis. Originally published in 1922, this text looks at Freud's analysis of wit, its synthesis and theories in pleasure, the comic and social processes. |
Contents
OHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
THE TECHNIQUE OF WIT | 15 |
THE TENDENCIES OF WIT | 127 |
THE PLEASURE MECHANISM AND THE PSY | 177 |
THE MOTIVES OF WIT AND WIT AS A | 214 |
THE RELATION OF WIT TO DREAMS | 249 |
WIT AND THE VARIOUS FORMS OF | 288 |
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absurdity æsthetic allusion answer appear become character child comic effect comic pleasure comparison conception condensation conscious Cracow critic discharge displacement double meaning dream-thoughts dream-work economy element energy example expression façade fact factor familiar famillionaire faulty thinking feeling foreconscious golden calf hearer Heine Heine's hindrance humor humoristic ical idea impression infantile inhibition Interpretation of Dreams investigation latter laugh laughter Lemberg Lichtenberg's Lipps manifold application means of wit ment mental modification naïve nature nique nonsense object obscene one's origin parison peculiar play on words pleas possible pression produce psychic expenditure psychic processes Psychoanalysis Psychopathology of Everyday relation remarked representation result sense sentence serves sexual shnorrer similar sion smutty joke sophism speech story substitution tech technical means technique of wit tendency tendency-wit thing things comic third person thought ticism tion ture uncon unconscious understand wish wit-formation wit-work witticism