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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 humor that has ever been produced. Jokes, he argues, provide immense pleasure by allowing us to express many of our deepest sexual, aggressive and cynical thoughts and feelings which would otherwise remain repressed. In elaborating this central thesis, he brings together a dazzling set of puns, anecdotes, snappy one-liners, spoonerisms and beloved stories of Jewish beggars and marriage-brokers. Many remain highly amusing, while others throw a vivid light on the lost world of early twentieth-century Vienna.

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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

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