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Subjective determinations, 155, 156, 166, 215, 217

Substitutive formation, 20

Tendencies of wit, 127, 206

Tendency to economy, 49

Tendency-wit, 130 its effect, 210

Thought-wit, 128 its techniques, 154

Travesty, 280, 324

Ueberhorst, 91

Unconscious, 254, 255, 269, 279, 281, 329 and the infantile, 268

Unification, 45, 88, 117, 121, 188

Unmasking, 303, 324

Vischer, 3, 8, 128

Voltaire, 91

Winslow, 45

Wish fulfilment, 249, 253

Wit, 4 and comic, 4, 330 and dreams, 249, 273, 285 and rebellion against authority, 153 as an inspiration, 265 as a social process, 214 by word-division, 32 definitions of, 6, 7, 8 desire to impart it, 239 double-facedness of, 240 harmless, 128 hostile and obscene, 138 in the service of tendencies, 146 ironical, 100 its motives, 214 its subjective determinations, 155 its tendencies, 127

Wit, literature of, 134 outdoing, 96, 97 pleasure mechanisms of, 177, 230 psychogenesis of, 177, 195, 200 shallow, 131 skeptical, 172, 173 technique of, 14, 194, 240

Wit-work, its formula, 261

Witticism and riddle, 232 critical, 171

Witticisms, blasphemous, 171

Witty nonsense, 211, 212

Woman, unyieldingness of, 143

Word-division, 32, 33, 34

Word-pleasure, 190

Word-wit, 128, 131

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Footnote 1:

Monograph Series, Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases Pub. Co., 2nd Ed., 1912.

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