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    CONTENTS

    A. ANALYSIS OF WIT

    CHAPTER PAGE

    I. Introduction 3

    II. The Technique of Wit 15

    III. The Tendencies of Wit 127

    B. SYNTHESIS OF WIT

    IV. The Pleasure Mechanism and the Psy-
    chogenesis of Wit 177

    V. The Motives of Wit and Wit as a So-
    cial Process 214

    C. THEORIES OF WIT

    VI. The Relation of Wit to Dreams and
    to the Unconscious 249

    VII. Wit and the Various Forms of the
    Comic 288