List Books » Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Series)
Authors: Sigmund Freud, James Strachey
ISBN-13: 9780393001457, ISBN-10: 0393001458
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: September 1990
Edition: The Standard Edition
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is one of the twentieth century's greatest minds and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. His many works include The Ego and the Id; An Outline of Psycho-Analysis; Inhibitions; Symptoms and Anxiety; New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis; Civilization and Its Discontent, and others.
Peter Gay is the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time. He lives in New York City.
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.