Jokes: Their Purpose and Meaning

Author(s) : Herbert S. Strean

Jokes: Their Purpose and Meaning

Book Details

  • Publisher : Jason Aronson
  • Published : 1994
  • Cover : Hardback
  • Category :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 2129
  • ISBN 13 : 9781568210704
  • ISBN 10 : 1568210701
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This work examines jokes as a means of communicating emotionally our deepest anxieties and most basic conflicts and impulses. Strean illustrates how jokes allow us safe - if indirect - expression of our erotic and perverse wishes, our hostility, defiance and disrespect.

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