Jokes
their purpose and meaning
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Word Count
56,000 words, Guess
Page Count
224 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1408489M
- ISBN-101568210701
- OCLC Control Number27935247
- OCLC Control Numberjokestheirpurpos00stre
- Library of Congress Control Number93017050
and 2 more
- LibraryThing2771274
- Goodreads3275648
Classifications
- DDC152.4
- LCCRC489.H85 S77 1993
Description
In the tradition of Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, Herbert Strean has presented an incisive examination of jokes as a form of emotional communication of our deepest anxieties and most basic conflicts and impulses. He lucidly illustrates how, through the medium of jokes, we are permitted safe, if indirect, expression of our erotic and perverse wishes, our hostile and defiant attitudes toward authority, our needs to deprecate those we perceive as superior, our stake in the war of the sexes, and our gratification in depicting religious figures (and therapists) as all too humanly succumbing to the temptations of lust and avarice. The jokes Dr. Strean presents and discusses are those concerned with the basic life situations that are inevitably characterized by ambivalence and conflict. Thus they constitute the principal material of psychotherapy.
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