TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gherovici,Patricia
AU  - Steinkoler,Manya
TI  - Lacan, psychoanalysis, and comedy /edited by] Patricia Gherovici, Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association New York, Manya Steinkoler, CUNY
SN  - 9781316091180
AV  - BF173 .L333 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Lacan, Jacques,
KW  - Psychoanalysis
KW  - Comedy
KW  - Wit and humor
KW  - Laughter
KW  - psychology
KW  - Psychoanalytic Therapy
KW  - Psychoanalytic Theory
KW  - Wit and Humor as Topic
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - Cutting-edge philosophers, psychoanalysts, literary theorists, and scholars use Freud and Lacan to understand laughter, humor, and the comic
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