Sigmund Freud
BiographyCartoons, satireEnglish wit and humor, PictorialPictorial English wit and humorPsychoanalysis
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Bursting defiantly and gleefully beyond the bounds of orthodox biography, Sigmund Freud is a wildly humorous exercise in bending, stretching and speculating on the activities of the so-called Father of Psychoanalysis. Ralph Steadman wields his shrewd wit and fierce pen to highlight the movements of Freud's life and career, from early childhood to the moment of death. But there's a twist. Through a masterful interplay of text and illustration, each scene is transformed into a "joking situation," which the artist hilariously examines according to the techniques discussed by Freud himself in his 1905 book, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. The result is a fantastic Freudian festival of visual and verbal puns, unexpected insights, and sheer intellectual enjoyment.
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BiographyCartoons, satireEnglish wit and humor, PictorialPictorial English wit and humorPsychoanalysisCaricatures and cartoons
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Austria
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Ralph Steadman
1934
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