Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious

The book includes the classic work of the Austrian doctor and the philosopher, the founder of the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud wit and its attitude to the unconscious (1905), which develops and complements ideas and observations, expressed by him earlier in the treatises Interpretation of dreams and psychopathology of everyday life, as well as the most interesting article Humor. In the interpretation of Freud, wit and artistic creativity appear as a free game of mental forces, in which the rules of which resembles the resemblance to the activities of the dream. The author analyzes the psychological mechanisms for the emergence of acute and offers their original classification, attracting an extensive circle of literary texts to consider