The Interpretation of Dreams and of Jokes

The Interpretation of Dreams and of Jokes
Author: Matthew Hugh Erdelyi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2022-12-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000828999

The Interpretation of Dreams and of Jokes provides a unique and integrative introduction to dream science. It addresses a notable gap in cognitive psychology on the subject of dreams and explores significant overlaps between the phenomena of dreams and jokes. Bringing together extensive research from cognitive psychology, neuroscience and psychoanalysis, the book provides a balanced approach to dream science that is underpinned by experimental and theoretical research. It considers the significance of dreams and their relationships to jokes, examining how both require an understanding of latent content in which context and individual differences play a large part. The book outlines a history of dream research and dream science and includes several original dream extracts for discussion. The book’s chapters explore how we can interpret meaning in dreams, how dreams might be indicators of inner psychological and somatic states, whether dreams can be used in problem-solving and the relationship between dreams and aphasia, memory and waking consciousness. This groundbreaking book will be essential reading for researchers and students from psychological and psychoanalytic backgrounds who are interested in the analysis and science of dreams.

Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious

Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1960
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780393001457

Observations of the Viennese psychoanalyst on curious plays on words that occur in dreams, and the unconscious sources of pleasure in jokes, wit, and humor.

Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy

Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy
Author: Patricia Gherovici
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107086175

Cutting-edge philosophers, psychoanalysts, literary theorists, and scholars use Freud and Lacan to shed light on laughter, humor, and the comic. Bringing together clinic, theory, and scholarship this compilation of essays offers an original mix with powerful interpretive implications.

The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious

The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2003-06-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1101644796

Why do we laugh? The answer, argued Freud in this groundbreaking study of humor, is that jokes, like dreams, satisfy our unconscious desires. The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious explains how jokes provide immense pleasure by releasing us from our inhibitions and allowing us to express sexual, aggressive, playful, or cynical instincts that would otherwise remain hidden. In elaborating this theory, Freud brings together a rich collection of puns, witticisms, one-liners, and anecdotes, which, as Freud shows, are a method of giving ourselves away. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Freud's Megalomania

Freud's Megalomania
Author: Israel Rosenfield
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2001
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393321999

What if Freud had left a final paper declaring that morality arises not from the guilt caused by Oedipal desires but, instead, from fear of the unchallengeable authority demonstrated in megalomania? CUNY history professor Rosenfield makes this the premise of his novel debut--and produces a wonderful, chewy, intellectual delight.

Joking Asides

Joking Asides
Author: Elliott Oring
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2016-09
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1607324911

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The Interpretation of Dreams

The Interpretation of Dreams
Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 678
Release: 2010-02-23
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0465021115

The most complete edition of Sigmund Freud’s classic work on the psychology and significance of dreams. What are the most common dreams and why do we have them? What does a dream about death mean? What do dreams of swimming, failing, or flying symbolize? First published in 1899, Sigmund Freud's groundbreaking book The Interpretation of Dreams explores why we dream and why dreams matter in our psychological lives. Delving into theories of manifest and latent dream content; the special language of dreams; dreams as wish fulfillments; the significance of childhood experiences; and much more, Freud offers an incisive and enduringly relevant examination of dream psychology. Encompassing dozens of case histories and detailed analyses of actual dreams, this landmark work grants us unique insight into our sleeping experiences. Renowned for translating Freud's German writings into English, James Strachey―with the assistance of Freud's daughter Anna―first published this edition in 1953. Incorporating all textual alterations made by Freud over a period of thirty years, it remains the most complete translation of the work in print.

The Road to Unity in Psychoanalytic Theory

The Road to Unity in Psychoanalytic Theory
Author: Elliott Oring
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2007
Genre: Dissent and Disputes
ISBN: 0765704293

Over the approximately 100-year course of the development of psychoanalytic theory, from its Freudian foundations to its current fragmented state, psychoanalytic theory has largely abandoned coherence and the inspiration to understand the human mind, argues Rangell Far from suggesting that psychoanalysis be abandoned, he instead traces the evolution of the various strands of psychoanalytic theory so that what is valuable can be extracted and included in a new effort to formulate a unitary theory.