The Joke and its Relation to the Unconscious

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 humor 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, snappy one-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.

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Adam Phillips is a psychoanalyst and a visiting professor in the English Department at the University of York.

He is the author of several well-known volumes, all widely acclaimed, including On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored, Going Sane, Side Effects and most recently On Kindness, co-written with historian Barbara Taylor, and On Balance.

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