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, which...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2024].
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 181 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-174) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781666945744 1666945749 |