Wit and his attitude to the unconscious. Freud Z.

“What a kind of charm brings wit to our society! A new joke is akin to an event to which they show wide interest: it is transmitted from mouth to mouth, like the news of the just victory, ”wrote Freud, who was extremely interested in the phenomenon of wit and his role in the life of individuals and society as a whole. He was sure that the popularity of wit could not be explained only by pleasure from a good joke, and set out to reveal the mechanism and secret springs of this unique phenomenon. Summarizing the experience of colleagues and the results of his own research, Freud wrote one of his most unusual and interesting works, accessible to the understanding of a wide reader.