The politics and psychoanalysis of comedy /

"This book looks at the political aspects of comedy and how unconscious social and psychological factors within a cultural and historical context shape it. Updating Freud's work on jokes, Samuels argues that any universal model of comedy must account for the role played by distinct genres,...

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Main Author: Samuels, Robert, 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2024.
Series:Psychoanalytic studies (Series)
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Summary:"This book looks at the political aspects of comedy and how unconscious social and psychological factors within a cultural and historical context shape it. Updating Freud's work on jokes, Samuels argues that any universal model of comedy must account for the role played by distinct genres, which are determined by political psychopathologies"--
Physical Description:ix, 181 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781666945744
1666945749