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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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