Project Gutenberg 2025-04-20 Public domain in the USA. 364 Freud, Sigmund 1856 1939 Freud, Sigm. Freud, Sigismund Schlomo Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden) 1874 1948 Brill, Abraham Arden 16020330 Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten. English Wit and its relation to the unconscious $aNew York :$bMoffat, Yard and Company, $c1916. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokes_and_Their_Relation_to_the_Unconscious Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious" by Sigmund Freud is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. The book delves into the psychological mechanisms and significance of wit, situating it within the broader context of Freud's psychoanalytic theory. Its central focus is to examine how wit operates in the mind, its techniques, and its relation to deeper unconscious processes—placing wit alongside dreams and slips of the tongue as meaningful psychic productions rather than trivial amusements. The opening of this work begins with a translator's preface, situating the book among Freud's other foundational texts and highlighting its importance in the development of psychoanalysis. Freud introduces the topic by surveying historical and philosophical approaches to wit, noting how prior thinkers have often treated it as a subset of the comic or failed to analyze it systematically. He critiques previous definitions, drawing attention to recurring themes such as brevity, playfulness, the unearthing of hidden meaning, and the combination of disparate ideas. Freud then moves into analyzing the technical mechanisms of wit by closely examining linguistic examples, especially those involving wordplay, condensation, and ambiguity. Throughout, he compares the structure of witty expressions to that of dreams—particularly noting their shared techniques of condensation and substitutive formation—while also distinguishing wit through its unique social and aesthetic aspects. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001111446 20240327104633freud 1916 US Reading ease score: 54.6 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Subconsciousness Wit and humor -- Psychological aspects BF Text Category: Psychiatry/Psychology 619901 2025-06-30T05:38:31.207675 text/html 583652 2025-04-20T02:09:34 text/html 463079 2025-06-30T05:38:40.585638 application/epub+zip 465337 2025-06-30T05:38:33.639667 application/epub+zip 362441 2025-06-30T05:38:32.311642 application/epub+zip 1108202 2025-06-30T05:38:45.557570 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1061073 2025-06-30T05:38:39.271654 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 527389 2025-06-30T05:38:29.974649 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 507410 2025-04-20T02:09:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17638 2025-06-30T05:38:45.710577 application/rdf+xml 17742 2025-06-30T05:38:32.675632 image/jpeg 2020 2025-06-30T05:38:32.491643 image/jpeg 1505849 2025-06-30T05:38:31.262696 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia de.wikipedia en.wikipedia