Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture - Exploded Manuscript

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WIT AND ITS RELATION TO THE UNCONSCIOUS

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Curator's Comments
Freud thought that jokes revealed something important that we might not want to consider directly. He saw in this joke the problem of what determines the truth and how truth is affected by who tells it to whom.

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( November 20, 2001 )