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)
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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.