FREUD, Sigmund. Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten . Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1905. 8 o (242 x 160 mm). Original printed gray wrappers, uncut (95-mm portion of lower spine renewed with loss of three words in spine title, fore-edge of front cover skilfully strengthened on verso); maroon half-morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION of Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious . PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Freud at top of front cover: "Herrn Prof. E. Loewy/in alter freundschaft/Freud." Emmanuel Lwy (1857-1938) was a professor of archeology in Rome (and later in Vienna); he was a cherished and life-long friend of Freud's since their student days. Freud's study of humor and the unconscious "constitutes his major contribution to the subject of aesthetics. He described the psychological processes and techniques of jokes, which we likened to the processes and techniques of dreamwork; discussed the purpose of jokes...and established the psychogenesis of jokes in the young child's pleasure in playing with words as if they were objects. 1,050 copies of this first edition were printed, which took seven years to sell" (Stanford). Grinstein 256; Jones II, pp. 375-378; Standard edition 1905c; Stanford 32; Norman F54.
FREUD, Sigmund. Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten . Leipzig and Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1905. 8 o (242 x 160 mm). Original printed gray wrappers, uncut (95-mm portion of lower spine renewed with loss of three words in spine title, fore-edge of front cover skilfully strengthened on verso); maroon half-morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION of Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious . PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Freud at top of front cover: "Herrn Prof. E. Loewy/in alter freundschaft/Freud." Emmanuel Lwy (1857-1938) was a professor of archeology in Rome (and later in Vienna); he was a cherished and life-long friend of Freud's since their student days. Freud's study of humor and the unconscious "constitutes his major contribution to the subject of aesthetics. He described the psychological processes and techniques of jokes, which we likened to the processes and techniques of dreamwork; discussed the purpose of jokes...and established the psychogenesis of jokes in the young child's pleasure in playing with words as if they were objects. 1,050 copies of this first edition were printed, which took seven years to sell" (Stanford). Grinstein 256; Jones II, pp. 375-378; Standard edition 1905c; Stanford 32; Norman F54.
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