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The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious Condition:Good some who are about toBuilding on the crucial insight that jokes use many of the same mechanisms he had already discovered in dreams, Freud developed one of the richest and most comprehensive theories of humor that has ever been produced. Jokes, he argues, provide immense pleasure by allowing us to express many of our deepest sexual, aggressive, and cynical thoughts and feelings which would otherwise remain repressed. In elaborating this central thesis, he brings together