The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious
$30.58
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2003
Summary
Series edited by celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Philips
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 centra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141185545 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141185546 |
| Author: | Sigmund Freud, John Carey, Joyce Crick |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2003 |
| Weight: | 217g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
About The Author
Sigmund Freud
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.
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