Lacan, psychoanalysis, and comedy /edited by] Patricia Gherovici, Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association New York, Manya Steinkoler, CUNY.
Lacan, psychoanalysis, and comedy /edited by] Patricia Gherovici, Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association New York, Manya Steinkoler, CUNY.
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half-title ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Table of contents ; Introduction ; In the Beginning was Laughter ; Comedy of the sexes ; ''Love is a comic feeling'' ; Dying of laughter ; Don't Cut the Comedy! ; Comedy's Power ; Laughing stock ; The laughing cure. Lacan on laughter -- a new kind of LOL Lacan.com-edy ; Works cited ; Part I The laughing cure ; Chapter 1 Sarah's laughter: Where babies and humor come from ; Works cited ; Chapter 2 Psychoanalysis as gai saber: Toward a new episteme of laughter ; Encounter with a fantasist. Jacques Lacan is gay Gay psychoanalysis ; Episteme of laughter ; Works cited ; Chapter 3 Laughing about nothing: Democritus and Lacan ; Works cited ; Chapter 4 The surplus jouissance of the joke from Freud to Lacan ; The techniques of the Joke (Witz). Condensation: First approach to ''The Wit of the Witz'' The surplus jouissance of the Witz ; Conclusion: The wit of the Witz ; Works cited ; Chapter 5 Can you spare a laugh? Lacan, Freud, and Marx on the economy of jokes1 ; I ; II ; III ; IV ; Works cited. Chapter 6 Mother-pumper and the analyst's donuts Works cited ; Chapter 7 Not in the humor: Bulimic dreams ; Dry humor ; Wet humor ; Superego: Friend or foe? ; Annie's dreams ; I ; II ; Afterword ; Works cited ; Part II Comedy on the couch.
Cutting-edge philosophers, psychoanalysts, literary theorists, and scholars use Freud and Lacan to understand laughter, humor, and the comic.
9781316091180 9781316690369
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
Psychoanalysis.
Comedy.
Wit and humor.
Laughter--psychology
Psychoanalytic Therapy
Psychoanalytic Theory
Wit and Humor as Topic
Electronic Books.
BF173 / .L333 2016
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half-title ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Table of contents ; Introduction ; In the Beginning was Laughter ; Comedy of the sexes ; ''Love is a comic feeling'' ; Dying of laughter ; Don't Cut the Comedy! ; Comedy's Power ; Laughing stock ; The laughing cure. Lacan on laughter -- a new kind of LOL Lacan.com-edy ; Works cited ; Part I The laughing cure ; Chapter 1 Sarah's laughter: Where babies and humor come from ; Works cited ; Chapter 2 Psychoanalysis as gai saber: Toward a new episteme of laughter ; Encounter with a fantasist. Jacques Lacan is gay Gay psychoanalysis ; Episteme of laughter ; Works cited ; Chapter 3 Laughing about nothing: Democritus and Lacan ; Works cited ; Chapter 4 The surplus jouissance of the joke from Freud to Lacan ; The techniques of the Joke (Witz). Condensation: First approach to ''The Wit of the Witz'' The surplus jouissance of the Witz ; Conclusion: The wit of the Witz ; Works cited ; Chapter 5 Can you spare a laugh? Lacan, Freud, and Marx on the economy of jokes1 ; I ; II ; III ; IV ; Works cited. Chapter 6 Mother-pumper and the analyst's donuts Works cited ; Chapter 7 Not in the humor: Bulimic dreams ; Dry humor ; Wet humor ; Superego: Friend or foe? ; Annie's dreams ; I ; II ; Afterword ; Works cited ; Part II Comedy on the couch.
Cutting-edge philosophers, psychoanalysts, literary theorists, and scholars use Freud and Lacan to understand laughter, humor, and the comic.
9781316091180 9781316690369
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
Psychoanalysis.
Comedy.
Wit and humor.
Laughter--psychology
Psychoanalytic Therapy
Psychoanalytic Theory
Wit and Humor as Topic
Electronic Books.
BF173 / .L333 2016