By Susan Sugarman
This e-book works to show that imaginative and prescient and to illustrate its fertility for extra inquiry. It reconstructs numerous of Freud's works on usual psychological existence, monitoring his approach to inquiry, particularly his look for the kid in the grownup, and culminating in a deployment of his instruments independently of his analyses. It indicates the best way to learn Freud for his perception and generativity and the way to push past the confines of his analyses in pursuit of recent strains of exploration. during this undertaking, in flip, it right away echoes and encourages the spirit of play with principles so attribute of, and so undertaking, Freud.
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The condensation, moreover, takes place within the frame afforded by the conventional tête-à-tête and thus eliminates any direct reference to il est un bête (“he is a stupid ass”). The replacement of the t in the second tête with the b of bête now serves as the sole representative of the omitted reference. Freud terms the entire process “condensation accompanied by slight modification” and suggests that the slighter the modification the more satisfying the joke (p. 25). In proceeding to “reduce” a long litany of cases in this fashion, Freud gradually expands the list of apparent joke techniques, which includes, in addition to condensation, the multiple use of the same material and double meaning, for example.
It is not clear how much greater plausibility this alternative account has than Freud’s does. Freud’s analysis holds the advantage that it explains why this particular retrieval might have proved difficult at the moment. It also makes use of the evidence Freud plausibly sees—via his generation of Boltraffio and the easy association between the anecdote he withheld from his companion about the Turks’ sexual attitudes and the matter of the suicide—that the suppressed anecdote and the suicide were active in his mind.
Freud terms the entire process “condensation accompanied by slight modification” and suggests that the slighter the modification the more satisfying the joke (p. 25). In proceeding to “reduce” a long litany of cases in this fashion, Freud gradually expands the list of apparent joke techniques, which includes, in addition to condensation, the multiple use of the same material and double meaning, for example. The multiple use of the same material can be seen in Traduttore— Traditore! (“translators are traitors”) (1905/1989, 36) and the double entendre in the courtier’s reply when asked by Louis XV to make a joke of which the king might be the subject (sujet): Le roi n’est pas sujet (“The king is not a subject”) (p.
