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The author applies psychoanalytic theory to examine wit as a psychological phenomenon, treating jokes and wordplay as expressions shaped by unconscious processes. He analyzes technical devices and recurring tendencies in joke formation, then synthesizes how pleasure, repression, and psychic economy produce comic effect. The text explores social motives for joking and how wit operates within group relations, compares its mechanisms with dreams and other psychopathological products, and surveys how different forms of the comic relate to the same underlying mental dynamics.

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Title: Wit and its relation to the unconscious

Author: Sigmund Freud

Translator: A. A. Brill

Release date: April 20, 2025 [eBook #75915]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1916

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WIT AND ITS RELATION TO THE UNCONSCIOUS

BY
Professor Dr. SIGMUND FREUD, LL.D.
Authorized English Edition, with Introduction by
A. A. BRILL, Ph.B., M.D.
Lecturer in Psychoanalysis and Abnormal Psychology, New York University; former Chief of Clinic of Psychiatry, Columbia University
NEW YORK
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
1916
Copyright, 1916, BY
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
New York
All Rights Reserved