The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious

著者名：Freud, Sigmund/Crick, Joyce (TRN)/Carey, John (INT)

Penguin Classics（2003/06/24発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780142437445
• eISBN：9781101644799

Description

Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this groundbreaking study of humor, is that jokes, like dreams, satisfy our unconscious desires. The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious explains how jokes provide immense pleasure by releasing us from our inhibitions and allowing us to express sexual, aggressive, playful, or cynical instincts that would otherwise remain hidden. In elaborating this theory, Freud brings together a rich collection of puns, witticisms, one-liners, and anecdotes, which, as Freud shows, are a method of giving ourselves away.

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Table of Contents

The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious - Sigmund Freud Introduction
Translator's Preface
A. Analytic Part
I. Introduction
II. The Technique of the Joke
III. The Tendencies of the Joke
B. Synthetic Part
IV. The Mechanism of Pleasure and the Psychological Origins of the Joke
V. The Motives for Jokes - The Joke as Social Process
C. Theoretical Part
VI. The Relation of the Joke to Dreams and to the Unconscious
VII. The Joke and the Varieties of the Comic