Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious
- ISBN-10
- 0486143430
- ISBN-13
- 9780486143439
- Series
- Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-08-29
- Publisher
- Courier Corporation
- Author
- Sigmund Freud
Description
Great analyst's brilliant, accessible study of the psychology of wit and jokes. Freud probes origins of wit in the "pleasure mechanism," demonstrates parallels with neuroses, dreams, psychopathological acts.
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