Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious

Sigmund Freud

Translator’s Preface

TRANSLATED BY A. A. BRILL

NEW YORK: MOFFAT, YARD & Co., 1916 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2010

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Contents

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