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100 1 _aFreud, Sigmund,
_d1856-1939
240 1 4 _aDer Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten. English
245 1 0 _aWit and its relation to the unconscious
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokes_and_Their_Relation_to_the_Unconscious
500 _aRelease date is 2025-04-20
508 _aRichard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _a"Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious" by Sigmund Freud is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. The book delves into the psychological mechanisms and significance of wit, situating it within the broader context of Freud's psychoanalytic theory. Its central focus is to examine how wit operates in the mind, its techniques, and its relation to deeper unconscious processes—placing wit alongside dreams and slips of the tongue as meaningful psychic productions rather than trivial amusements. The opening of this work begins with a translator's preface, situating the book among Freud's other foundational texts and highlighting its importance in the development of psychoanalysis. Freud introduces the topic by surveying historical and philosophical approaches to wit, noting how prior thinkers have often treated it as a subset of the comic or failed to analyze it systematically. He critiques previous definitions, drawing attention to recurring themes such as brevity, playfulness, the unearthing of hidden meaning, and the combination of disparate ideas. Freud then moves into analyzing the technical mechanisms of wit by closely examining linguistic examples, especially those involving wordplay, condensation, and ambiguity. Throughout, he compares the structure of witty expressions to that of dreams—particularly noting their shared techniques of condensation and substitutive formation—while also distinguishing wit through its unique social and aesthetic aspects. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1916
653 _aSubconsciousness
653 _aWit and humor -- Psychological aspects
700 1 _aBrill, A. A.
_q(Abraham Arden),
_d1874-1948
856 4 _uhttps://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001111446
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75915
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