Footnote 58: Besides the dream-work and the technique of wit I have been able to demonstrate condensation as a regular and significant process in another psychic occurrence, in the mechanism of normal (not purposive) forgetting. Singular impressions put difficulties in the way of forgetting; impressions in any way analogous are forgotten by becoming fused at their points of contact. The confusion of analogous impressions is one of the first steps in forgetting. Footnote 59: Many of my patients while under psychoanalytic treatment are wont to prove regularly by their laughter that I have succeeded in demonstrating faithfully to their conscious perception the veiled unconscious; they laugh also when the content of what is disclosed does not at all justify this laughter. To be sure, it is conditional that they have approached this unconscious closely enough to grasp it when the physician has conjectured it and presented it to them. Footnote 60: In doing this we must not forget to reckon with the distortion brought about by the censor which is still active in the psychoses. Footnote 61: _The Interpretation of Dreams._ Footnote 62: The character of the comical which is referred to as its “dryness” also depends in the broadest sense upon the differentiation of the things spoken from the antics accompanying it. Footnote 63: _The Interpretation of Dreams_, p. 296. Footnote 64: This very remarkable and still inadequately understood behavior of antagonistic relationships is probably not without value for the understanding of the symptom of negativism in neurotics and in the insane. Cf. the two latest works on the subject: Bleuler, “Über die negative Suggestibilität,” _Psych.-Neurol. Wochenschrift_, 1904, and Otto Groos’s _Zur Differential diagnostik negativistischer Phänomene_, also my review of the _Gegensinn der Urworte_, in _Jahrb. f. Psychonalyse_ II, 1910. Footnote 65: An expression of G. T. Fechner’s which has acquired significance from the point of view of my conception. Footnote 66: Given by Translator. Footnote 67: I have everywhere identified the naïve with the naïve-comic, a practice which is certainly not permissible in all cases. But it is sufficient for our purposes to study the characteristics of the naïve as exhibited by the “naïve joke” and the “naïve obscenity.” It is our intention to proceed from here with the investigation of the nature of the comic. Footnote 68: