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Description

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. While in this book Freud tells some good stories... read more

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First Sentence

Let us follow up a lead presented to us by chance and consider the first example of a joke that we came across in the preceding chapter.

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  1. Sigmund Freud (Author)
  2. James Strachey
 

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