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Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (German: Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewußten) is a 1905 book on the psychoanalysis of jokes and humour by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.
Fischer (1889) illustrates the relation of jokes to the comic with the help of caricature, which in his account he places between them. The comic is concerned with the ugly in one of its manifestations: ‘If it is
Sep 17, 1990 · A definitive guide to Freud's theory of humour in relation to the unconscious mind. In later life Freud turned his attention back to humour noting that not everyone is capable of constructing jokes, which explains why some people appear to have a "sense of humour failure".
- Sigmund Freud
In this work, Freud expresses strong belief that the same processes that relate to the creation of dreams in the unconscious mind are also at play when making jokes. The book is easily one of Freud's most easily understood work on his brief detour on social anthropology.
Feb 7, 2020 · Observations of the Viennese psychoanalyst on curious plays on words that occur in dreams, and the unconscious sources of pleasure in jokes, wit, and humor. Translation of Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten. Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Books. Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. Freud argues that the "joke-work" is intimately related to the "dream-work" which he had analyzed in detail in his Interpretation of...
