Part 34

Footnote 16:

Psychanalysis: Its Theories and Application, 2nd Ed., p. 331.

Footnote 17:

This same witticism was supposed to have been coined before by Heine concerning Alfred de Musset.

Footnote 18:

One of the complications involved in the technique of this example lies in the fact that the modification through which the omitted abuse is substituted is to be taken as an allusion to the latter, for it leads to it only through a process of deduction.

Footnote 19:

Another factor which I shall mention later on is also effective in the technique of this witticism. It has to do with the inner character of the modification (representation through the opposite—contradiction). The technique of wit does not hesitate to make use simultaneously of several means, with which, however, we can only become acquainted in their sequential order.

Footnote 20:

Translation of 4th Ed. by A. A. Brill, the Macmillan Co., New York, and Allen & Unwin, London.

Footnote 21:

The Interpretation of Dreams, p. 280.

Footnote 22:

Cited by Brill: Psychanalysis, p. 335.

Footnote 23:

l. c., p. 334.

Footnote 24:

The excellence of these jokes depends upon the fact that they, at the same time, present another technical means of a much higher order.

Footnote 25:

Given by Translator.

Footnote 26:

This resembles an excellent joke of Oliver Wendell Holmes cited by Brill: “Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.” A contradiction is here announced which does not appear. At all events it is a good example of the untranslatableness of the witticisms of such technique.

Footnote 27:

Brill cites a very analogous modification wit: Amantes—Amentes (lovers—lunatics).

Footnote 28:

Compare here K. Fischer (p. 85), who applies the term “double meaning” to those witticisms in which both meanings are not equally prominent, but where one overshadows the other. I have applied this term differently. Such a nomenclature is a matter of choice. Usage of speech has rendered no definite decision about them.

Footnote 29:

L. c., page 339.