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Freud oas Investigatory Tool 33
PART II: STUDIES
6 Getting Lost in Someone Else’s Story:
“Creative Writers and Daydreaming” (1908) 39
7 Why We Laugh at Something Funny: Jokes and
Their Relation to the Unconscious (1905) 43
8 The Experience of the “Uncanny”:
“The ‘Uncanny’” (1919) 61
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9 The Paradox of Surprise in the Face of Certainty:
“A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis”
(1936) 71
10 What Makes Choice Difficult When It Is:
A Freud-Inspired Excursion 89
11 Mourning and Mental Health: “On Transience”
(1916), “Mourning and Melancholia” (1917) 101
References 107
Index 113
About the Author 119Foreword
This book grew out of my experience as a developmental psy-
chologist reading Freud. After I began teaching developmental
psychology to undergraduates in the 1980s, I recalled the urg-
ings of a college professor of mine to read chapter 7 of Freud’s
The Interpretation of Dreams for the extraordinary psychology
of mind it contains. Read it I did and found myself entranced,
from the chapter’s opening, which describes the luminous
and heart-wrenching dream that illustrates Freud’s theory of
dreams as wish-fulfillments, to the broad theory of mind that
occupies the later pages.
In the dream, a devoted father who has just lost his beloved
child drifts to sleep in the next room to find himself dreaming
the child has arisen, alive, and jostled his arm, saying, “Father,
don’t you see, I’m burning?” The father awakes to fire emanat-
ing from the child’s room, where one of the candles lighting the
room has fallen on the arm of the dead body and burned it. The
father hastens to the room and extinguishes the fire.
Transformative for me