In the Event of Laughter Psychoanalysis Literature and Comedy Alfie Bown 1501342630 9781501342639

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• ISBN 10: 1501342630
• ISBN 13:  9781501342639
• Author: Alfie Bown

Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as its pre-history and afterlives, In the Event of Laughter argues for a new framework for discussing laughter. Responding to a tradition of ‘comedy studies’ that has been interested only in the causes of laughter (in why we laugh), it proposes a different relationship between laughter and causality. Ultimately it argues that laughter is both cause and effect, troubling chronological time and asking for a more nuanced way of conceiving the relationship between subjects and their laughter than existing theories have accounted for. Making this visible via psychoanalytic ideas of retroactivity, Alfie Bown explores how laughter – far from being a mere response to a stimulus – changes the relationship between the present, the past and the future. Bown investigates this hypothesis in relation to a range of comic texts from the ‘history of laughter,’ discussing Chaucer, Shakespeare, Kafka and Chaplin, as well as lesser-known but vital figures from the comic genre.

Table of contents:

1 Laughter as Liberation

Punch lines: Punch and Judy to Charlie Hebdo

2 Laughter and Control

Strict jokes and pure jokes: The Trauerspeil of Gryphius and Shakespeare

3 Laughter as Event

Beginnings: Hegel the comedian

Laughter and psychoanalytic time: Freud and Lacan

Laughter and ‘the event’: Alain Badiou

‘I can laugh’: Kafka’s letters

4 Laughter and Anxiety

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