Jokes And Their Relation To The Unconscious by Sigmund Freud
The book analyzes jokes as psychological phenomena that reveal unconscious processes, arguing that humor permits the release and economy of psychic energy by bypassing censorship through mechanisms like condensation, displacement, and wordplay; it distinguishes between innocent and tendentious jokes, examines their social and aggressive functions, and compares joke-work to dream-work to show how suppressed thoughts—especially sexual and hostile impulses—find brief, pleasurable expression in witty, structured forms.
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- Published
- 1905
- Nationality
- Austrian
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- Pages
- 200-300 pages
- Original Language
- German
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- Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewußten
- The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious
- Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious
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