Wit and his attitude to the unconscious. Freud Z.

The book includes the classical work of the Austrian doctor and philosopher, the founder of the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud “Wit and his attitude to the unconscious” (1905), which develops and complements the ideas and observations expressed earlier in the treatises “Interpretation of dreams” and “Psychopathology of ordinary Life ”, as well as an interesting article“ Humor ”. In the interpretation of Freud, wit and artistic creation appear as a free game of mental forces, in the rules of which there is a similarity with the activity of a dream. The author analyzes the psychological mechanisms of the occurrence of sharpness and offers their original classification, attracting an extensive circle of literary texts for consideration.