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The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious

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The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious Synopsis

Building on the crucial insight that jokes use many of the same mechanisms he had already discovered in dreams, Freud developed one of the richest and most comprehensive theories of humour that has ever been produced. Jokes, he argues, provide immense pleasure by allowing us to express many of our deepest sexual, aggressive and cynical thoughts and feelings which would otherwise remain repressed. In elaborating this central thesis, he brings together a dazzling set of puns, anecdotes, snappyone-liners, spoonerisms and beloved stories of Jewish beggars and marriage-brokers. Many remain highly amusing, while others throw a vivid light on the lost world of early twentieth-century Vienna.

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ISBN: 9780141185545
Publication date: 28th November 2002
Author: Sigmund Freud, John Carey
Publisher: Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 288 pages
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Genres: Psychology: states of consciousness
Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology