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The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious (Penguin Classics) [Paperback]

Sigmund Freud (Author), John Carey (Introduction), Joyce Crick (Translator)

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Paperback: 229 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books (Jun 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0142437441
ISBN-13: 978-0142437445
Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 13 x 1.2 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,698,447 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Anyone who has had occasion to consult the literature of aesthetics and psychology for the light it can cast on the nature of the joke and its connections will surely have to admit that it has not received nearly as much philosophical attention as it deserves, given the part jokes play in our mental life. Read the first page

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Jokes are not a joke 29 Oct 2005

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For Freud jokes were not just fooling around, not primarily a means of play, not in short something of trivial importance. Rather they were expressions of our deepest instinctual drives and needs. Like errors in everyday life they are governed by an inner intentionality, and purposiveness.

Here it might be said that Freud exaggerates or is too extreme in his point- of- view and does not explain all humor by it.

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