Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy

Gherovici, Patricia

Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy - New York Cambridge University Press 2016 - 247p

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The laughing cure ............23 Sarah`s Laughter: Where babies and humor come from manya steinkoler .............25 Psychoanalysis as gai saber : Towar a new episteme of Laughter .......36 Laughing about nothing : democritus and lacan ...........60 The surplus jouissance of the joke from freud to lacan ..............73 Can you spare a laugh ? Lacan, freud, and marx on the economy of Jokes..............82 Mother- pumper and the analyst`s donuts.........104 Not in the humor: bulimic dreams .........113 2. Comedy on the cough ................131 Comedy and the agency of the letter in a Midsummer night`s dream........133 Psychoanalysis and tragicomedy: Measure for measure after zizek`s lacanian dialectics ............156 Jane austen`s wit-craft........184 The perambulatory process : Eros, wit and society - testing in henry jame`s the Chaperon ...........206 Power in the closer .........219 3. He who laughs last, laughs last ..............235

9781107086173 5817


Psychoanalysis

O64.28 / G342

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