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Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious

Such a far-reaching agreement as found between the means of wit-work and those of dream-work can scarcely be accidental.

—The Technique of Wit.

Sigmund
Freud

Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious

Sigmund Freud

Translator’s Preface

TRANSLATED BY A. A. BRILL

NEW YORK: MOFFAT, YARD & Co., 1916
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2010

Bibliographic Record

Contents

A. Analysis of Wit

I. Introduction

II. The Technique of Wit

III. The Tendencies of Wit

B. Synthesis of Wit

IV. The Pleasure Mechanism and the Psychogenesis of Wit

V. The Motives of Wit and Wit as a Social Process

C. Theories of Wit

VI. The Relation of Wit to Dreams and to the Unconscious

VII. Wit and the Various Forms of the Comic