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Article: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
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- International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
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JOKES AND THEIR RELATION TO THE UNCONSCIOUS
Freud wrote
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
(1905) at nearly the same time as
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
(1905), but here pleasure is approached from the angle of wit and its mechanisms and motives. In this work Freud further develops his principal discoveries on mental activity elaborated in
The Interpretation of Dreams
(1900), a text already containing a reference to wit in the structure of dreams.
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
is divided into three sections: analytic, synthetic, and theoretical. As in
The Interpretation of Dreams
, Freud discusses at length the theories of philosophers (Theodor Vischer, ...