Abstract
Abstract The essay discusses how Twain's humor can be read in the context of the liminal. It explores how Twain's moves between absurdity and serious meaning, jarring illogic and rationality, might be read in the context of Freud's notion of humor—its dislocating effects as an unconscious welling up that subverts the customary logic of the world.
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