Ebook: Humor and Psyche: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Humour, a topic that engaged Sigmund Freud throughout his career, is richly intertwined with character, with creativity and with the theory and practice of psychoanalytic therapy. Yet, until very recently, analysts ignored Freud's lead and relegated humour to the periphery of their concerns. Humour and Psyche not only remedies previous neglect of the role of humour in the psychoanalytic situation but opens to a broad and balanced consideration of the role of humour in psychological life.