The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious

Sigmund Freud, John Carey, Joyce Crick

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German

Penguin
03 January 2003

Psychology; Conscious & unconscious; Popular psychology

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

Building on the crucial insight that jokes use many of the same mechanisms he had already discovered in dreams, Freud developed one of the richest and most comprehensive theories of humour that has ever been produced.

Jokes, he argues, provide immense pleasure by allowing us to express many of our deepest sexual, aggressive and cynical thoughts and feelings which would otherwise remain repressed. In elaborating this central thesis, he brings together a dazzling set of puns, anecdotes, snappyone-liners, spoonerisms and beloved stories of Jewish beggars and marriage-brokers. Many remain highly amusing, while others throw a vivid light on the lost world of early twentieth-century Vienna.

By: Sigmund Freud
Introduction by: John Carey
Translated by: Joyce Crick
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 213g
ISBN: 9780141185545
ISBN 10: 0141185546
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 03 January 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939. As a writer and doctor he remains one of the great voices of the modern era.