Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
Recommended by Ruth Wisse, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #45 in Psychoanalysis
Freud argues that the "joke-work" is intimately related to the "dream-work" which he had analyzed in detail in his
Interpretation of Dreams
, and that jokes (like all forms of humor) attest to the fundamental orderliness of the human mind. While in this book Freud tells some good stories with his customary verve and economy, its point is wholly serious. less
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Ruth Wisse Humour is a way of allowing for all that we cannot allow ourselves because we are trying so hard to be civilized and good people. (Source)
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