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Tag: analysis

Twelve Jokes from (if not by) Sigmund Freud

In 1905, Sigmund Freud published his book-length study, Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious. Here are some of the … More

A. A. Brill, analysis, ba-boom, connotation, jokes, Mark Twain, ouch, poetic language, psychoanalysis, psychology, Sigmund Freud, unconscious

Analysis and “Ruining the Fun”

“Secondly, and more seriously, it has been deduced from this belief that you are liable to destroy the poem if … More

analysis, literary criticism, literary theory, new criticism, poetry, William Empson

 

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