Philosophical concept
Joke-work
Joke-work describes techniques such as condensation, double meaning, and displacement that yield pleasure while allowing a tendency to pass.
- Works
- 6
- Passages
- 1,287
- Thinkers
- 1
- Traditions
- 1
Understand uses of the concept
Joke-work describes techniques such as condensation, double meaning, and displacement that yield pleasure while allowing a tendency to pass.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,287 passages across 6 works, including Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, The Interpretation of Dreams. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: witzarbeit, joke-work, travail du mot d’esprit
Works where the concept is identified
- Beyond the Pleasure PrincipleSigmund Freud · 60 passages
- Jokes and Their Relation to the UnconsciousSigmund Freud · 224 passages
- The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud · 630 passages
- The Psychopathology of Everyday LifeSigmund Freud · 84 passages
- Three Essays on the Theory of SexualitySigmund Freud · 109 passages
- Totem and TabooSigmund Freud · 180 passages