num_pages: 330
description: Freud's major contribution to aesthetics, and investigates a subject which has been almost totally neglected by other psychoanalysts Freud deals with the unconscious and conscious sources of pleasure in jokes and wit, comedy and humour, examining techniques of jokes, their aim, their social function and the role of the audience.
language: English
title: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
titlecomplete: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
genres: Classics, Comedy, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Psychology, Humor, 20th Century, Science, Nonfiction, Theory
ratings_count: 1486
publisher: Pelican/Penguin Books