How to Read Freud on Jokes

The Critic as Schadchen

Bibliographic Data

ID5162012
AuthorsJeffrey Mehlman (corresponding author)
Year1975
Volume6
Issue2
Pages439
Publication date1975-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Literary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/468430
OpenAlexW2317421924
LanguageEN
Citations received12

the dream as representatives of the dream-thoughts, so that an element in the dream corresponds to a point (Knotenpunkt) or junction in the dream thoughts .. . 1 The allusion to the Knotenpunkt reminds the reader of that perspective in Freud more concerned with discovering a latent organization of the manifest content than a hidden meaning behind it. To locate the dream element in which the various associative strands of the dream converge is no doubt to isolate the other center of dreams and consequently to come to terms with the strange syntax regulating the transformations of the dream-work. This for Freud constituted the analytic task par excellence: to bring into relief the structural function-even more than the meaning(s)-of a nodal term. It is for this reason that the reader may be surprised to find the following statement, toward the end of the same chapter, in the course of the author's comments on his own procedure: [one] rightly refuses to regard the relation of the hypothesis to the material from which it was inferred as a 'proof' of it. It can only be regarded as 'proved' if it is reached by another path as well and if it

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