Writer, Historian, Appetite. Author of Ways of Eating (UC Press, 2023), Meat Planet (UC Press, 2019), Thinking in Public (Penn, 2016) & other light works.
Freud [places a banana peel in the bedroom of his sleeping children] "I know! I'll call it "Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious."
Dubliner, FSA, FRHistS; mostly medieval with an unhealthy interest in James Joyce. Níl ann ach mo thuairim féin.https://t.co/axiJefYcA2
@MarcPColeman @Muinchille The very common misattribution of the horsey jibe to Wellington owes a great deal to Sigmund Freud, ‘Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious’, Complete Psychological Works, VIII, 1-247 ( 71). In this context, Freud ascribes what was actually Daniel O’Connell’s jibe that ...
Katie Kadue is a scholar of early modern French and English literature.
freud’s jokes and their relation to the unconscious is a great book because it’s mostly just him telling his favorite jokes, interspersed with commentary like “this is an excellent joke” or “unfortunately this next one is yet another jewish joke”