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(a) German Editions:
1927 Der Humor Almanack 1928, 9-16.
1928 Der Humor Imago, 14 (1), 1-6.
1928 Der Humor G.S., 11, 402-8.
1948 Der Humor G.W., 14, 383-9.
(b) English Translation:
1928 ‘Humour’ Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 9 (1), 1-6. (Tr. Joan Riviere.)
1950 ‘Humour’ C.P., 5, 215-21. (Revised reprint of above.)
The present translation is a corrected version of that published in 1950.
Freud wrote this paper in five days during the second week of August, 1927 (Jones, 1957, 146), and it was read on his behalf by Anna Freud on September 1, before the Tenth International Psycho-Analytical Congress at Innsbruck. It was first published in the autumn of the same year in the psycho-analytic ‘Almanac’ for 1928.