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The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious
- Form
- Form Psychology
- Year
- Year 1905
- Originally in
- Originally in German
- Pages
- Pages 300
Famillionär: Heine's threadbare lottery agent, boasting that Salomon Rothschild treated him quite familiarly, quite as one millionaire to another, jams two words into one that never existed, and Freud could not let it go. The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious takes the most disposable thing a person makes, the pun that dies in a second at a dinner table, and reads it the way he read dreams: as a smuggler.
The dream serves preponderately to guard from pain while wit serves to acquire pleasure; in these two aims all our psychic activities meet.
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