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Lacan, psychoanalysis, and comedy /edited by] Patricia Gherovici, Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association New York, Manya Steinkoler, CUNY.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781316091180
  • 9781316690369
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BF173 .L333 2016
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Contents:
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.
Subject: Cutting-edge philosophers, psychoanalysts, literary theorists, and scholars use Freud and Lacan to understand laughter, humor, and the comic.
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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.

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