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In the Event of Laughter: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy (Psychoanalytic Horizons) PDF

168 Pages·2018·8.1 MB·English
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by Alfie Bown| 2018| 168 pages| 8.1| English

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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 laughter (in why we laugh), it proposes a different relationship between laughter and causality. Ultimately it argues that laughter is both cause and effect, troubling chronological time and asking for a more nuanced way of conceiving the relationship between subjects and their laughter than existing theories have accounted for.Making this visible via psychoanalytic ideas of retroactivity, Alfie Bown explores how laughter – far from being a mere response to a stimulus – changes the relationship between the present, the past and the future. Bown investigates this hypothesis in relation to a range of comic texts from the ‘history of laughter,’ discussing Chaucer, Shakespeare, Kafka and Chaplin, as well as lesser-known but vital figures from the comic genre.

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Author:Alfie Bown
Publication Year:2018
ISBN:9781501342622
Pages:168
Language:English
File Size:8.1
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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