INDEX
A. A. (Abraham Arden) Brill translation
A
Abstract wit, 128
Absurdity, 77
Actuality, 186
Æsthetics, vi
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 façade, 236 its origin, 302 its psychogenesis, 360 of expectation, 317 of imitation, 336
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 substitution, 25
Conflict, 163
Contrast, 8
Critical witticisms, 171
Cynical tendency, 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, 67, 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
386E
Economy, 49, 52, 242, 245 of psychic expenditure, 180
Ehrenfels, 165
Exaggeration, 280
Exhibitionism, 142
F
Façade, 155, 158
Facetious questions, 238
Falke, 14, 80, 95
Falstaff, Sir John, 376
Faulty thinking, 81, 84
Fechner, 188, 207, 280
Fischer, 3, 4, 6, 11, 43, 47, 55, 89, 132, 136
Flaubert, 24
Foreconscious, 282
Fore-pleasure, 209, 211
G
Goethe, 133
Grim-humor, 372
Groos, 183, 184, 185, 195
Gross, 278
H
Harmless wit, 128, 211, 219, 222, 284 and tendency-wit, 130
Heine, 9, 15, 26, 43, 44, 47, 55, 57, 92, 94, 106, 109, 119, 122, 171, 215, 216, 223, 341
Heymans, 9, 215
Holmes, 37
Hugo, 373
Humor, 370 Mark Twain’s, 374
I
Imitations, 303, 322
Impulse to impart wit, 200
Indirect expression, 100 with allusion, 101
Infantile and the comic, 364
Inhibitions, 140, 197, 206, 230, 231, 236, 290 expenditure of, 180
Insults, 209
Invectives, 148, 277
Ironical wit, 100
Irony, 276
J
Jest, 197, 201, 211, 274, 284
Johnson, 45
Jokes, cynical, 164 good or poor, 182 Jewish, 59, 72, 97, 166, 218 smutty, 139, 140, 145, 233
K
Kant, 320
Kleinpaul, 198
Kraepelin, 7
L
Lassalle, 115
Laugh, 221
Laughter as a discharge, 228 its determination, 224, 226
Lessing, 97, 130
Libido, 141
Lichtenberg, 39, 78, 89, 95, 97, 104, 115, 118, 121, 122, 129, 132, 149, 218
Lipps, 3, 4, 6, 10, 30, 93, 215, 227, 254, 320, 326
M
Manifold application, 40, 45
Matthews, 44
Michelet, 78
Modification, 42
Moll, 141
Morality, 163
Motives, 214, 239
N
Naïve, 290 characteristics of, 295 examples of, 291
387Negativism, 276
Nestroy, 120, 341
Nonsense, 72, 192, 200, 279
Nonsense-witticisms, 76
O
Obscene wit, 138, 203
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 opposite, 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
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 388and dreams, 249, 273, 285 and rebellion against authority, 153 as an inspiration, 265 as a social process, 214 by word-division, 32 definitions of, 6, 7, 8 desire to impart it, 239 double-facedness of, 240 harmless, 128 hostile and obscene, 138 in the service of tendencies, 146 ironical, 100 its motives, 214 its subjective determinations, 155 its tendencies, 127
Wit, literature of, 134 outdoing, 96, 97 pleasure mechanisms of, 177, 230 psychogenesis of, 177, 195, 200 shallow, 131 skeptical, 172, 173 technique of, 14, 194, 240
Wit-work, its formula, 261
Witticism and riddle, 232 critical, 171
Witticisms, blasphemous, 171
Witty nonsense, 211, 212
Woman, unyieldingness of, 143
Word-division, 32, 33, 34
Word-pleasure, 190
Word-wit, 128, 131
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained.
Used numbers for footnotes, placing them all at the end of the last chapter.