Book contents
- Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy
- Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I The laughing cure
- Chapter 1 Sarah’s laughter
- Chapter 2 Psychoanalysis as gai saber
- Chapter 3 Laughing about nothing
- Chapter 4 The surplus jouissance of the joke from Freud to Lacan
- Chapter 5 Can you spare a laugh? Lacan, Freud, and Marx on the economy of jokes1
- Chapter 6 Mother-pumper and the analyst’s donuts
- Chapter 7 Not in the humor
- Part II Comedy on the couch
- Part III He who laughs last, laughs last
- Index
- References
Chapter 5 - Can you spare a laugh? Lacan, Freud, and Marx on the economy of jokes1
from Part I - The laughing cure
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2016
Book contents
- Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy
- Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I The laughing cure
- Chapter 1 Sarah’s laughter
- Chapter 2 Psychoanalysis as gai saber
- Chapter 3 Laughing about nothing
- Chapter 4 The surplus jouissance of the joke from Freud to Lacan
- Chapter 5 Can you spare a laugh? Lacan, Freud, and Marx on the economy of jokes1
- Chapter 6 Mother-pumper and the analyst’s donuts
- Chapter 7 Not in the humor
- Part II Comedy on the couch
- Part III He who laughs last, laughs last
- Index
- References
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