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InThe Interpretation of Dreams (1900) Sigmund Freud made many preliminary connections between the psychic processes found in the production of dreams and with the production of humor. Encouraged by a correspondence with his friend Wilhelm Fliess, Freud went on to write a book entirely devoted to an examination of the comic, humor, and jokes, entitledJokes and their Relation to the Unconscious (1905). Freud later reflected that this work “considered humor really from the economic view alone,” and remedied this with the short paperHumour (1928), which included a view of humor from his revised structural model of the psyche (p. 1). Freud’s structural model was largely...
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Christoff, M., Dauphin, V. (2020). Freud’s Theory of Humor. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_588
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