Jokes and Their Relationship to the Unconscious

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay

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Author
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay
Publish Date
1990-09-17
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
W. W. Norton & Company
Number of Pages
258
Edition
The Standard
ISBN-10
0393001458
ISBN-13
9780393001457
citemno
144096
SKU
9780393001457

Description

Freud argues that the "joke-work" is intimately related to the "dream-work" which he had analyzed in detail in his Interpretation of Dreams, and that jokes (like all forms of humor) attest to the fundamental orderliness of the human mind.