Titre :	The joke and its relation to the unconscious
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Sigmund Freud, Auteur ; Joyce Crick, Traducteur
Editeur :	London [England] : Penguin Books
Année de publication :	2002
Collection :	Penguin classics
Importance :	xlii, 231 p
Présentation :	couv. ill. en coul.
Format :	20 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-14-118554-5
Note générale :	Translated from the German.
Langues :	Anglais
Catégories :	LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:429 Old english ; LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature
Résumé :	Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this groundbreaking study of humour, is that jokes, like dreams, satisfy our unconscious desires. The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious (1905) explains how jokes provide immense pleasure by releasing us from our inhibitions and allowing us to express sexual, aggressive, playful or cynical instincts that would otherwise remain hidden. In elaborating this theory, Freud brings together a rich collection of puns, witticisms, one-liners and anecdotes, many of which throw a vivid light on the society of the early twentieth-century Vienna. Jokes, as Feud shows, are a method of giving ourselves away.

The joke and its relation to the unconscious [texte imprimé] / Sigmund Freud, Auteur ; Joyce Crick, Traducteur . - London (England) : Penguin Books, 2002 . - xlii, 231 p : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. - (Penguin classics) .
ISBN : 978-0-14-118554-5
Translated from the German.
Langues : Anglais

Catégories :

LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:429 Old english ; LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature

Résumé :

Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this groundbreaking study of humour, is that jokes, like dreams, satisfy our unconscious desires. The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious (1905) explains how jokes provide immense pleasure by releasing us from our inhibitions and allowing us to express sexual, aggressive, playful or cynical instincts that would otherwise remain hidden. In elaborating this theory, Freud brings together a rich collection of puns, witticisms, one-liners and anecdotes, many of which throw a vivid light on the society of the early twentieth-century Vienna. Jokes, as Feud shows, are a method of giving ourselves away.