In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy by Alfie Bown

In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy

Psychoanalytic Horizons

Alfie Bown

168 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary philosophy psychology informative medium-paced
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Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as its pre-history and afterlives, In the Event of Laughter argues for a new framework for discussing laughter. Responding to a tradition of 'comedy studies' that has been interested only in the causes of lau...

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