TY - BOOK AU - Gherovici, Patricia TI - Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy SN - 9781107086173 U1 - O64.28 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Psychoanalysis N1 - 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 ER -