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Jean Cocteau labeled this revolutionary work "a pastorale of the prehistoric world" at its premiere in Paris in 1913

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Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious and Peabody and Stearns areRenowned as the father of psychoanalysis, Freud was uniquely qualified to write this fascinating exploration of the nature of wit including jokes and joking and its role and function as a manifestation and vehicle of unconscious impulses. First analyzing the techniques and tendencies of wit, the great analyst probes the origins of wit in the "pleasure mechanism." He then discusses the motives of wit, wit as a social process, the relation of wit to