Economics as a Laughing Matter: Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Economic and Rhetorical Unconscious

Autor:	Richard T. Gray
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Structure (mathematical logic) Unconscious mind Psychoanalysis Literature and Literary Theory media_common.quotation_subject Freud's Psychoanalytic Theories Psychic Rhetoric Rhetorical question Relation (history of concept) Psychology Social psychology Parallels media_common
Zdroj:	The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory. 88:97-120
ISSN:	1930-6962 0016-8890
Popis:	Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious can be read as a fundamental economic and rhetorical treatise on a number of different levels. Viewed most basically, this work outlines the economizing mechanisms that Freud believes are at work in all unconscious psychic operations. In this regard, Jokes focuses on the third dimension Freud associated with his general metapsychological project, the first two being the topological and the dynamic aspects of psychic life. But on a more profound level, economic thought, structures, and metaphors invade Freud's text in its very rhetoric and discursive structure. However, the parallels between the economics and the rhetoric of this work do not end here. Jokes assume a privileged status in Freud's theory because, as acts of interhuman communicative transfer, they demonstrate that certain psychic structures not only operate unconsciously, but can also be consciously manipulated to achieve strategic psychological effects and affects in others. Jokes thereby ma...
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