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Pleasure in nonsense, 190, 271 mechanisms of wit, 177 sources, 150

Psychic energy, 227

Psychoneuroses, 147

Puns, 53

Recognition, 183

Regression, 259

Representation through the opposite, 93, 95 through the minute, 111, 112

Repression, 147, 205, 211

Riddle, 232

Rousseau, J. B., 91

Rousseau, J. J., 33

Sancho Panza, 216

Satire, 43, 137

Schnitzler, 42

Sense in nonsense, 73, 74, 75, 199

Sexual elements, 139, 140, 219

Shakespeare, 222

Shake-up rhymes, 129

Sky-larking, 192

Smutty jokes, 139, 145, 233

Society, 150

Sophism, 82, 83, 159

Sophistic displacement, 161 faulty thinking, 78, 79

Soulié, 57

Sound, similarity, 39

Spencer, 225

Spinoza, 106

Stettenheim, 343

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