INDEX
A
Abstract wit, 128
Absurdity, 77
Actuality, 186
Aesthetics, 2
Agaasiz, 54
Aggression, 13S, 152, 160, 232
Alluring-premiums, 210
Allusions, 107, 108, 232
Ambiguity, 45
Ambitious impulse, 219
Application of same material, 49
Aristotle, 184
Attributions, 121
Automatic process, 238
Automatisms, 85, 86, 87, 235,
B
Bain, 226, 322
Bergson, 301, 337, 360
Blasphemous witticisms, 171
Bleuler, 278
Bonmot, 43
Brevity, 10, 29, 52, 243
Brill, 22, 31, 35, 37, 38, 56
C
Caricature, 280, 303, 320
Censor, 260
Characterization-wit, 71
Child, 190, 309, 362
Childhood, 149
Comic, 4, 10, 221, 287, 313
- element, 88
- facade, 236
- its origin, 302
- its sychogenesis, 360
- of expectation, 317
- of imitation, 336
- of speech, 345
- motion, 304
- pleasure, its origin, 361
- situations, 303, 314
Comical character, 277
Comparison, 113
with unification, 130
Composition, 31
Condensation, 20, 48
- examples of, 21, 22, 23
- in dreams, 31, 49, 266
- with modification and substitution, 25
Conflict, 163
Contrast, 8
Critical witticisms, 171
Cynical tendency, 204
- witticisms and self-criticism,
Cynicism, 65, 161
- pessimistic, 170
D
Darwin, 226
Defence, 138
- reaction, 142
Derision, 157
De Quincey, 22
Disguise, 303
Displacement, 57, 61, 161
- in dreams, 256
Displacement-wit, 68, 71, 237
Don Quixote, 377.
Double meaning, 40, 103
- and displacement, 66
- of a name, 41
Doubt in witty comparisons, 118
Dream-formation, 260
Dream-work, 249, 276
Dreams, 30, 250, 261
Dugas, 224, 242