Jokes: Their Purpose and Meaning

by Herbert S. Strean

Book Overview

In the tradition of Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, Herbert Strean has presented an incisive examination of jokes as a form of emotional communication of our deepest anxieties and most basic conflicts and impulses. He lucidly illustrates how, through the medium of jokes, we are permitted safe, if indirect, expression of our erotic and perverse wishes, our hostile and defiant attitudes toward authority, our needs to deprecate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568210701
• ISBN13: 9781568210704
• Release Date: July 1977
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"