The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious - Couverture souple

Freud, Sigmund

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141185546 ISBN 13 : 9780141185545

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2002

Synopsis

Jokes offer immense pleasure by allowing us to express many of our deepest sexual, aggressive and cynical thoughts and feelings which would otherwise remain repressed. This book brings together a set of puns, anecdotes, snappy one-liners, spoonerisms and beloved stories of Jewish beggars and marriage-brokers.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0141185546
• ISBN 13: 9780141185545
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288