# Joke-work

- Id: `joke_work`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/joke-work/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `82cba2b0ddec184ea3a043f40c6901035155c03d55b1c91492821a228a39b828`

## Summary

Joke-work describes techniques such as condensation, double meaning, and displacement that yield pleasure while allowing a tendency to pass.

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:freud.traumdeutung:section-0308",
    "passage:freud.der_witz:section-0190",
    "passage:freud.der_witz:section-0165"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "witzarbeit",
    "joke-work",
    "travail du mot d’esprit"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 6,
    "passages": 1287,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "psychology",
        "name": "Psychology and psychoanalysis",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/psychology-and-psychoanalysis/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "freud.jenseits_lustprinzips",
        "title": "Beyond the Pleasure Principle",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/jenseits-lustprinzips/"
    },
    {
        "id": "freud.der_witz",
        "title": "Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/der-witz/"
    },
    {
        "id": "freud.traumdeutung",
        "title": "The Interpretation of Dreams",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/traumdeutung/"
    },
    {
        "id": "freud.psychopathologie_alltagslebens",
        "title": "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/psychopathologie-alltagslebens/"
    },
    {
        "id": "freud.drei_abhandlungen",
        "title": "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/drei-abhandlungen/"
    },
    {
        "id": "freud.totem_und_tabu",
        "title": "Totem and Taboo",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/totem-und-tabu/"
    }
]
```