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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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Bibliographic Details
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)
Subjects:	Comedy > Political aspects > United States. Comedy > Psychological aspects > United States. Comédie > Aspect politique > États-Unis.

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