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Freud argues that the "joke-work" is intimately related to the "dream-work" which he had analyzed in detail in his Interpretation of Dreams, and that jokes (like all forms of humor) attest to the fundamental orderliness of the human mind.

This early work by Sigmund Freud was originally published in 1905 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious' is a psychological work on the effects on the mind of jokes. Sigismund Schlomo Freud was born... Read Full Overview

Sigmund Freud is known around the world as the "Father of Psychoanalysis," and for good reason. If anything, Freud's first patient was himself. A sufferer of psychosomatic symptoms, Freud diagnosed himself as having a repressed antagonism against his father. From there, Freud... Read Full Overview

Building on the crucial insight that jokes use many of the same mechanisms he had already discovered in dreams, Freud developed one of the richest and most comprehensive theories of humour that has ever been produced.

This early work by Sigmund Freud was originally published in 1905 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious' is a psychological work on the effects on the mind of jokes. Sigismund Schlomo Freud was born... Read Full Overview

Sigmund Freud (Pr bor, 6 de mayo de 1856-Londres, 23 de septiembre de 1939) fue un m dico neur logo austriaco de origenjud o, padre del psicoan lisis y una de las mayores figuras intelectuales del siglo XX. Su inter s cient fico inicial como investigador se centr en el campo... Read Full Overview

El sentido del humor de una persona esta relacionado con el nivel cultural y contextual del sujeto y se determina por sus experiencias de vida. Hacer chistes implica un intrincado proceso mental, el cual es desmenuzado aqui a conciencia."

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.