_The Interpretation of Dreams_, p. 280. Footnote 22: Cited by Brill: _Psychanalysis_, p. 335. Footnote 23: l. c., p. 334. Footnote 24: The excellence of these jokes depends upon the fact that they, at the same time, present another technical means of a much higher order. Footnote 25: Given by Translator. Footnote 26: This resembles an excellent joke of Oliver Wendell Holmes cited by Brill: “Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.” A contradiction is here announced which does not appear. At all events it is a good example of the untranslatableness of the witticisms of such technique. Footnote 27: Brill cites a very analogous modification wit: _Amantes—Amentes_ (lovers—lunatics). Footnote 28: Compare here K. Fischer (p. 85), who applies the term “double meaning” to those witticisms in which both meanings are not equally prominent, but where one overshadows the other. I have applied this term differently. Such a nomenclature is a matter of choice. Usage of speech has rendered no definite decision about them. Footnote 29: L. c., page 339. Footnote 30: Heine’s answer is a combination of two wit-techniques—a displacement and an allusion—for he does not say directly: “He is an ox.” Footnote 31: The word “take,” owing to its meanings, lends itself very well towards the formation of plays upon words, a pure example of which I wish to cite as a contrast to the displacement mentioned above. While walking with his friend, in front of a café, a well-known stock-plunger and bank director made this proposal: “Let us go in and take something.” His friend held him back and said: “My dear sir, remember there are people in there.” Footnote 32: For the latter see a later chapter. It will perhaps not be superfluous to add here a few words for better understanding. The displacement regularly occurs between a statement and an answer, and turns the stream of thought to a direction different from the one started in the statement. The justification for separating the displacement from the double meaning is best seen in the examples where both are combined, that is, where the wording of the statement admits of a double meaning which was not intended by the speaker, but which reveals in the answer the way to the displacement (see examples). Footnote 33: See Chapter III. Footnote 34: A similar nonsense technique results when the joke aims to maintain a connection which seems to be removed through the special conditions of its content. A joke of this sort is related by J. Falke (l. c.): “_Is this the place where the Duke of Wellington spoke these words?_” “_Yes, this is the place; but he never spoke these words._” Footnote 35: Following an example of the _Greek Anthology_. Footnote 36: Cf. my _Interpretation of Dreams_, Chap. VI, _The Dream Work_, translated by A. A. Brill, The Macmillan Co., New York, and Allen & Unwin, London.