Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious

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W. W. Norton & Company, 1960 - Psychology - 258 pages
Freud argues that the "joke-work" is intimately related to the "dream-work" which he had analyzed in detail in his Interpretation of Dreams, and that jokes (like all forms of humor) attest to the fundamental orderliness of the human mind.
 

Contents

Introduction
5
The Technique of Jokes
14
The Purposes of Jokes
106
The Mechanism of Pleasure and the Psycho
143
The Motives of JokesJokes as a Social
171
The Relation of Jokes to Dreams and to
197
Jokes and the Species of the Comic
224
Franz Brentanos Riddles
295
Index of Jokes
305
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is one of the twentieth century's greatest minds and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. His many works include The Ego and the Id; An Outline of Psycho-Analysis; Inhibitions; Symptoms and Anxiety; New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis; Civilization and Its Discontent, and others.