Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
work by Freud
Also known as: “Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten”
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discussed in biography
- In Sigmund Freud: Further theoretical development
…seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten (Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious). Invoking the idea of “joke-work” as a process comparable to dreamwork, he also acknowledged the double-sided quality of jokes, at once consciously contrived and unconsciously revealing. Seemingly innocent phenomena like puns or jests are as open to interpretation…
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