{"product_id":"wit-and-its-relation-to-the-unconscious-9780486277424","title":"Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious","description":"\u003cp\u003eRenowned as the father of psychoanalysis  Freud was uniquely qualified to write this fascinating exploration of the nature of wit  including jokes and joking  and its role and function as a manifestation and vehicle of unconscious impulses. First analyzing the techniques and tendencies of wit  the great analyst probes the origins of wit in the \"pleasure mechanism.\" He then discusses the motives of wit  wit as a social process  the relation of wit to dreams and the unconscious  and wit and the various forms of the comic. Until the publication of this important study  the literature on which was insubstantial; those investigations that existed tended to neglect wit in favor of the larger  more general area of the comic. In Freuds hands  however  the study of wit became another avenue of investigation into the psyche. With characteristic insight and intelligence he shows that wit  although it belongs to aesthetics  is subject to the same laws  shares the same mechanism and serves the same tendencies as neuroses  dreams and psychopathological acts. Published a few years after Freuds breakthrough work  The Interpretation of Dreams  the present volume is not only an acutely perceptive psychological study  its lighthearted tone and abundant store of jokes and witticism make it one of the most accessible and enjoyable of Freuds works. It is presented here in an excellent English translation by A. A. Brill  Freuds chosen translator and former Chief of the Clinic of Psychiatry  Columbia University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67908276879413,"sku":"ByrdShop_0486277429","price":99.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780486277424.jpg?v=1793900758","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/wit-and-its-relation-to-the-unconscious-9780486277424","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}