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The Joke and Its Relation To the Unconscious (Penguin Modern Classics)

By Sigmund Freud , Joyce Crick (tr.) , John Carey (intro.)

Book information

Publisher
Penguin
Year
2002
ISBN
9780141185545, 0141185546
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16928762 bytes)
Series
New Penguin Freud
Pages
288\277
Topic
Psychology
Library
Internet Archive
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-12-08 03:45:25
Psychoanalysis

Description

Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this groundbreaking study of humor, is that jokes, like dreams, satisfy our unconscious desires. The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious explains how jokes provide immense pleasure by releasing us from our inhibitions and allowing us to express sexual, aggressive, playful, or cynical instincts that would otherwise remain hidden. In elaborating this theory, Freud brings together a rich collection of puns, witticisms, one-liners, and anecdotes, which, many of which throw a vivid light on the society of early twentieth-century Vienna. Jokes, as Freud shows, are a method of giving ourselves away.

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