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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 August 2016
      02 August 2016
      ISBN:
      9781316091180
      9781107086173
      9781107450578
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316091180
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 254 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.373kg, 254 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Theory, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
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    This collection of essays explores laughter, humor, and the comic from a psychoanalytic perspective. Edited by two leading practicing psychoanalysts and with original contributions from Lacanian practitioners and scholars, this cutting-edge volume proposes a paradigm swerve, a Freudian slip on a banana peel. Psychoanalysis has long been associated with tragedy and there is a strong warrant to take up comedy as a more productive model for psychoanalytic practice and critique. Jokes and the comic have not received nearly as much consideration as they deserve given the fundamental role they play in our psychic lives and the way they unite the fields of aesthetics, literature, and psychoanalysis. Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy addresses this lack and opens up the discussion.

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