Wit And Its Relation To The Unconscious

by Sigmund Freud

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415210911
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/24/1999
Series:	International Library of Psychology
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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