Lacan, psychoanalysis, and comedy / [edited by] Patricia Gherovici, Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association New York, Manya Steinkoler, Manhattan College, New York.
| Other author | Gherovici, Patricia editor. |
| Other author | Steinkoler, Manya editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016. |
| Description | vi, 247 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Patricia Gherovici and Manya Steinkoler -- The laughing cure -- Sarah's laughter : where babies and humor come from / Manya Steinkoler -- Psychoanalysis as Gai Saber : towards a new episteme of laughter / Dany Nobus -- Laughing about nothing : Democritus and Lacan / Patricia Gherovici -- The surplus jouissance of the joke : from Freud to Lacan / Marcel Drach -- Can you spare a laugh? : Lacan, Freud, and Marx on the economy of jokes / Jean Michel Rabaté -- Mother pumper and the analyst's donuts / Jamieson Webster -- Not in the humor : bulimic dreams / Carol Owens -- Comedy on the couch -- Psychoanalysis and tragicomedy : measure for measure after Zizek's Lacanian dialectics / Geoff Boucher -- Comedy and the agency of the letter in a midsummer night's dream / Matthew Sharpe -- Jane Austen's wit-craft / Molly Rothenberg -- The sexual politics of comedy : Henry James's "the chaperon" / Sigi Jottkandt -- Power in the closet : and its coming out / Alenka Zupan'is -- He who laughs last, laughs last -- Epilogue: repetition, repetition, repetition : richard prince and the three R's / Simon Critchley. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2016015467 |
| ISBN | 9781107086173 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1107086175 (hardback ; alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | BF173 .L1793 2016 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |