In the event of laughter: psychoanalysis, literature and comedy
"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 then investigates this hypothesis in relation to a range of comic texts f...
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| Summary: | "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 then 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"... |
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| adam_text | Contents List of Figures vi Preface and Acknowledgements vii Note on the Text viii Introduction: Laughter’s Doubleness Laughter studies Laughter or comedy, heaviness and light 1 2 1 6 9 Laughter and indeterminacy 17 Eventai laughter 20 Laughter as Liberation 23 Punch lines: Punch and Judy to Charlie Hebdo 36 Laughter and Control 51 Strict jokes and pure jokes: The Trauerspeil of Gryphius and 3 4 Shakespeare 66 Laughter as Event 81 Beginnings: Hegel the comedian 83 Laughter and psychoanalytic time: Freud and Lacan 96 Laughter and ‘the event’: Alain Badiou 102 T can laugh’: Kafka’s letters 107 Laughter and Anxiety 113 Gogol’s Overcoat, laughter’s objects 121 Conclusion 131 Chaplin and fascism: Laughter’s eventual evental interpretations 131 A history of laughter 141 Bibliography 145 Index 155
‘In the Event ofLaughter draws together Hegel, Freud, Lacan, and Badiou with readings of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Gogol, Baudelaire, and Kafka, to tell a compelling story about the meaning of laughter. Bown shows that when we divide laughter into its common types (radical vs. reactionary, canned vs. spontaneous, liberatory vs. enthralling), we obscure the fact that laughter is, in toto, our experience in ideology. Every laugh resets our connection to ideology right at the moment ideology itself, intermittent as ever, releases us into laughter. Every guffaw is an event that refashions us for a society constantly remaking itself. Every chortle, a world reimagined but reaffirmed. As Bown nicely demonstrates, laughter as ideology comprehends social and biological, political and natural, and ideal and material domains, all the way up to the angels and all the way down to the turtles.’ Andrew Cole, Professor of English, Princeton University, USA, and author of The Birth of Theory (2014) 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.
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Contents List of Figures vi Preface and Acknowledgements vii Note on the Text viii Introduction: Laughter’s Doubleness Laughter studies Laughter or comedy, heaviness and light 1 2 1 6 9 Laughter and indeterminacy 17 Eventai laughter 20 Laughter as Liberation 23 Punch lines: Punch and Judy to Charlie Hebdo 36 Laughter and Control 51 Strict jokes and pure jokes: The Trauerspeil of Gryphius and 3 4 Shakespeare 66 Laughter as Event 81 Beginnings: Hegel the comedian 83 Laughter and psychoanalytic time: Freud and Lacan 96 Laughter and ‘the event’: Alain Badiou 102 T can laugh’: Kafka’s letters 107 Laughter and Anxiety 113 Gogol’s Overcoat, laughter’s objects 121 Conclusion 131 Chaplin and fascism: Laughter’s eventual evental interpretations 131 A history of laughter 141 Bibliography 145 Index 155
‘In the Event ofLaughter draws together Hegel, Freud, Lacan, and Badiou with readings of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Gogol, Baudelaire, and Kafka, to tell a compelling story about the meaning of laughter. Bown shows that when we divide laughter into its common types (radical vs. reactionary, canned vs. spontaneous, liberatory vs. enthralling), we obscure the fact that laughter is, in toto, our experience in ideology. Every laugh resets our connection to ideology right at the moment ideology itself, intermittent as ever, releases us into laughter. Every guffaw is an event that refashions us for a society constantly remaking itself. Every chortle, a world reimagined but reaffirmed. As Bown nicely demonstrates, laughter as ideology comprehends social and biological, political and natural, and ideal and material domains, all the way up to the angels and all the way down to the turtles.’ Andrew Cole, Professor of English, Princeton University, USA, and author of The Birth of Theory (2014) 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. |
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