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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.
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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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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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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
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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.
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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