1st Edition

Wit And Its Relation To The Unconscious

By Freud, Sigmund Copyright 1999
    200 Pages
    by Routledge

    200 Pages
    by Routledge

    This 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.

    A. ANALYSIS OF WIT I INTRODUCTIONI II THE TECHNIQUE OF WIT III. THE TENDENCIES OF WIT B. SYNTHESIS OF WIT IV. THE PLEASURE MECHANISM: AND THE PSYCHOGENESIS OF WIT V. THE MOTIVES OF WIT AND WIT AS A SoCIAL PROCESS C. THEORIES OF WIT VI. THE RELATION OF WIT TO DREAMS AND TO THE UNCONSCIOUS VII. WIT AND THE VARIOUS FORMS OF THE COMIC

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    Sigmund Freud