Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious

Translation of Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten. Authorized English Edition, with Introduction by A. A. Brill. CONTENTS: Analysis of Wit -- The Technique of Wit -- The Tendencies of Wit -- Synthesis of Wit -- The Pleasure Mechanism and the Psychogenesis of Wit -- The Motives of Wit and Wit as a Social Process -- Theories of Wit -- The Relation of Wit to Dreams and to the Unconscious -- With and the Various forms of the Comic. Some underlining and marginalia reproduced.