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Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious · Sigmund Freud — chapter 27 of 39 · ~140 words · public domain

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Application of same material, 49

Aristotle, 184

Attributions, 121

Automatic process, 238

Automatisms, 85, 86, 87, 235, 358

Bain, 226, 322

Bergson, 301, 337, 360

Blasphemous witticisms, 171

Bleuler, 278

Bonmot, 43

Brevity, 10, 29, 52, 243

Brill, 22, 31, 35, 37, 38, 56

Caricature, 280, 303, 320

Censor, 260

Characterization-wit, 71

Child, 190, 309, 362

Childhood, 149

Comic, 4, 10, 221, 287, 313 element, 88 façade, 236 its origin, 302 its psychogenesis, 360 of expectation, 317 of imitation, 336

Comic, of speech, 345 motion, 304 pleasure, its origin, 351 situations, 303, 314

Comical character, 277

Comparison, 113 with unification, 130

Composition, 31

Condensation, 20, 48 examples of, 21, 22, 23 in dreams, 31, 49, 256 with modification and substitution, 25

Conflict, 163

Contrast, 8

Critical witticisms, 171

Cynical tendency, 204 witticisms and self-criticism, 166

Cynicism, 65, 161 pessimistic, 170

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