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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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2024].
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| Series: | Psychoanalytic studies (Series)
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Table of Contents:
- Libertarian comedy: the hidden danger of the Joe Rogan Experience
- The Office and the political humor of centrist narcissists
- The hidden conservative: Dave Chappelle and the trap of assimilation
- Curb your liberalism
- The limits of Left-wing humor: Hanna Gadsby, Comedic Journalism and the misunderstanding of Freud
- Don't look up: Maybe politics needs to be serious.