Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
Sigmund Freud
330 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0140217347
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Language: English
Publish: January 6, 1976
20th CenturyClassicsComedyHumorNonfictionPhilosophyPsychoanalysisPsychologyScienceTheory
Freud’s major contribution to aesthetics, and investigates a subject which has been almost totally neglected by other psychoanalysts
Freud deals with the unconscious and conscious sources of pleasure in jokes and wit, comedy and humour, examining techniques of jokes, their aim, their social function and the role of the audience.