INDEX

A

(Abstract wit, 128

Absurdity, 77

Actuality, 186

Æsthetics, 2

Agassiz, 54

Aggression, 138, 152, 160, 232

Alluring-premiums, 210

Allusions, 107, 108, 232

Ambiguity, 45

Ambitious impulse, 219

Application of same material,
49

Aristotle, 184

Attributions, 121

Automatic process, 238

Automatisms, 85, 86, 87, 235,
358

B

Bain, 226, 322

Bergson, 301, 337, 360
Blasphemous witticisms, 171
Bleuler, 278

Bonmot, 43

Brevity, 10, 29, 52, 243
Brill, 22, 31, 35, 37, 38, 56

C

Caricature, 280, 303, 320
Censor, 260
Characterization-wit, 71
Child, 190, 309, 362
Childhood, 149
Comic, 4, 10, 221, 287, 313

element, 88

facade, 236

its origin, 302

its psychogenesis, 360

of expectation, 317

of imitation, 336

386

Comic, of speech, 345
motion, 304 ;
pleasure, its origin, 351
situations, 303, 314

Comical character, 277

Comparison, 113
with unification, 130

Composition, 31

Condensation, 20, 48
examples of, 21, 22, 23
in dreams, 31, 49, 256
with modification and sub-

stitution, 25

Conflict, 163

Contrast, 8

Critical witticisms, 171

Cynical tendeney, 204
witticisms and self-criticism,

166

Cynicism, 65, 161

pessimistic, 170

D

Darwin, 226
Defence, 138
reaction, 142
Derision, 157
De Quincey, 22
Disguise, 303
Displacement, 57, 61, 161
in dreams, 256
Displacement-wit, 68, 71, 237
Don Quixote, 377.
Double meaning, 40, 103
and displacement, 66
of a name, 41
Doubt in witty comparisons,
118
Dream-formation, 260
Dream-work, 249, 275
Dreams, 30, 250, 251
Dugas, 224, 242

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E Inhibitions, 140, 197, 206, 230,
231, 236, 290
Economy, 49, 52, 242, 245 expenditure of, 180
of psychic expenditure, 180 Insults, 209

Ehrenfels, 165 Invectives, 148, 277
Exaggeration, 280 Ironical wit, 100
Exhibitionism, 142 Irony, 276

F J

Jest, 197, 201, 211, 274, 284

Facade, 155, 158 Johnson, 45 ,

Facetious questions, 238

Falke, 14, 80, 95 Jokes, cynical, 164

good or poor, 182

IE IU E Jewish, 59, 72, 97, 166, 218
Faulty thinking, 81, 84 smutty, 139, 140, 145, 233
Fechner, 188, 207, 280 Jon cora DN
Fischer, 3, 4, 6, 11, 43, 47, 55, K
89, 132, 136
Flaubert, 24
Foreconscious, 282 Kant, 320
Fore-pleasure, 209, 211 VE
2 i Kraepelin, 7
G L
Goethe, 133 Lassalle, 115
Grim humor, 372 Laugh, 221
Groos, 183, 184, 185, 195 Laughter as a discharge, 228
Gross, 278 its determination, 224, 226
Lessing, 97, 130
H Libido, 141 |
) Lichtenberg, 39, 78, 89, 95, 97,
Harmless wit, 128, 211, 219, 104, 115, 118, 121, 122, 129,
222, 284 132, 149, 218
and tendency-wit, 130 Lipps, 3, 4, 6, 10, 30, 93, 215,
Heine, 9, 15, 26, 43, 44, 47, 55, 227, 254, 320, 326
57, 92, 94, 106, 109, 119,
122, 171, 215, 216, 223, 341 M
Heymans, 9, 215
Holmes, 37 Manifold application, 40, 45
Hugo, 373 Matthews, 44
Humor, 370 Michelet, 78
Mark Twain’s, 374 Modification, 42
Moll, 141
I Morality, 163

Motives, 214, 239
Imitations, 303, 322

Impulse to impart wit, 200 | N
Indirect expression, 100 Naive, 290
with allusion, 101 characteristics of, 295

Infantile and the comic, 364 examples of, 291

INDEX

Negativism, 276

Nestroy, 120, 341
Nonsense, 72, 192, 200, 279
Nonsense-witticisms, 76

0

Obscene wit, 138, 8
Obscenity, 142

Omission, 82, 107, 232
Outdoing wit, 96, 97

P

Parody, 280, 324
Pascal, 337
Paul, 3, 7, 8, 18, 29, 301
Persons in tendency-wit, 144,
221, 222, 230, 231, 240
Perversion, 141
Phillips, 151
Play, 211
and jest, 195
on words, 40
Playing with words, 196

Pleasure in nonsense, 190, 271

mechanisms of wit, 177
sources, 150
Psychic energy, 227
Psychoneuroses, 147
Puns, 53

R

Recognition, 183
Regression, 259
Representation through the op-
posite, 93, 95
through the minute, 111, 112
Repression, 147, 205, 211
Riddle, 232
Rousseau, J. B., 91
Rousseau, J. J., 33

S

Sancho Panza, 216

Satire, 43, 137

Schnitzler, 42

Sense in nonsense, 73, 74, 75,
199

387

Sexual elements, 139, 140, 219

Shakespeare, 222

Shake-up rhymes, 129

Sky-larking, 192

Smutty jokes, 139, 145, 233

Society, 150

Sophism, 82, 83, 159

Sophistic displacement, 161

faulty thinking, 78, 79

Soulié, 57

Sound, similarity, 39

Spencer, 225

Spinoza, 106

Stettenheim, 343

Subjective determinations, 155,
156, 166, 215, 217

Substitutive formation, 20

T

Tendencies of wit, 127, 206
Tendency to economy, 49
Tendency-wit, 130

its effect, 210
Thought-wit, 128

its techniques, 154
Travesty, 280, 324

U

Ueberhorst, 91
Unconscious, 254, 255, 269, 279,
281, 329
and the infantile, 268
Unification, 45, 88, 117, 121,
188
Unmasking, 303, 324

V
Vischer, 3, 8, 128

Voltaire, 91

W

Winslow, 45
Wish fulfilment, 249, 253
Wit, 4

and comic, 4, 330

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Wit, and dreams, 249, 273, 285 Wit, literature of, 134

and rebellion against author- outdoing, 96, 97

ity, 153 pleasure mechanisms of, 177,
as an inspiration, 265 230
as a social process, 214 psyehogenesis of, 177, 195,
by word-division, 32 200
definitions of, 6, 7, 8 shallow, 131
desire to impart it, 239 skeptical, 172, 173
double-facedness of, 240 technique of, 14, 194, 240
harmless, 128 Wit-work, its formula, 261
hostile and obscene, 138 Witticism and riddle, 232
in the service of tendencies, critical, 171

146 Witticisms, blasphemous, 171
ironical, 100 Witty nonsense, 211, 212
its motives, 214 Woman, unyieldingness of, 143
its subjective determinations, Word-division, 32, 33, 34

155 Word-pleasure, 190

its tendencies, 127 Word-wit, 128, 131