The Politics and Psychoanalysis of Comedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics and Psychoanalysis of Comedy write by Robert Samuels. This book was released on 2023-11-20. The Politics and Psychoanalysis of Comedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book looks at the political aspects of comedy and how humor is shaped by unconscious social and psychological factors within a particular cultural and historical context. Updating Freud’s work on jokes, Robert Samuels argues that any universal model of comedy must take into account the role played by distinct genres, which are themselves determined by particular political psychopathologies. In looking at contemporary comedy, we encounter a structure that is often seen throughout the world: in response to what is experienced as a Leftist super-ego censoring thoughts and speech and a Libertarian Right which promotes free speech as the ultimate value. Within this dynamic, comedians seeking to make their audience laugh by poking fun at sensitive and taboo subjects, intentionally and unintentionally, these humorists present an alternative to Left-wing political correctness and identity politics. Contemporary comedians then cannot help but to cater to Right-wing politics since the Right is centered on loudly rejecting the cultural dictations of the Left.
Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy
Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy write by Jack Black. This book was released on 2021-04-25. Race, Racism and Political Correctness in Comedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In what ways is comedy subversive? This vital new book critically considers the importance of comedy in challenging and redefining our relations to race and racism through the lens of political correctness. By viewing comedy as both a constitutive feature of social interaction and as a necessary requirement in the appraisal of what is often deemed to be ‘politically correct’, this book provides an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to the study of comedy and popular culture. In doing so, it engages with the social and cultural tensions inherent to our understandings of political correctness, arguing that comedy can subversively redefine our approach to ‘PC Debates’, contestations surrounding free speech and the popular portrayal of political correctness in the media and society. Aided by the work of both Slavoj Žižek and Alenka Zupančič, this unique analysis adopts a psychoanalytic/philosophical framework to explore issues of race, racism and political correctness in the widely acclaimed BBC ‘mockumentary’, The Office (UK), as well as a variety of television comedies. Drawing from psychoanalysis, social psychology and philosophy, this book will be highly relevant for postgraduate students and academic researchers studying comedy, race/racism, multiculturalism, political correctness and television/film.
Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy
Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy write by Patricia Gherovici. This book was released on 2016-08-02. Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cutting-edge philosophers, psychoanalysts, literary theorists, and scholars use Freud and Lacan to shed light on laughter, humor, and the comic. Bringing together clinic, theory, and scholarship this compilation of essays offers an original mix with powerful interpretive implications.
Theology, Comedy, Politics
Theology, Comedy, Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theology, Comedy, Politics write by Marcus Pound. This book was released on 2019-09-03. Theology, Comedy, Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What relevance has comedy for the global crises of late-modernity and the theological critique thereof? Coming out of the experience of war, a generation of modern theologians such as Donald MacKinnon, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and, more recently, Rowan Williams, in their accommodation to literature, choose tragedy as the paradigm for theological understanding and ethics. By contrast, this book develops recent philosophical, anthropological, and psychoanalytical studies of humor to develop a theology of comedy. By deconstructing secular accounts of comedy it advances the argument that comedy is not only participatory of the divine, but that it should inform our thinking about liturgical, sacramental, and ecclesial life if we are to respond to the postmodern age in which having fun is an ideological imperative of market forces.
Enjoying What We Don't Have
Enjoying What We Don't Have - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enjoying What We Don't Have write by Todd McGowan. This book was released on 2020-03-01. Enjoying What We Don't Have available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although there have been many attempts to apply the ideas of psychoanalysis to political thought, this book is the first to identify the political project inherent in the fundamental tenets of psychoanalysis. And this political project, Todd McGowan contends, provides an avenue for emancipatory politics after the failure of Marxism in the twentieth century. Where others seeking the political import of psychoanalysis have looked to Freud's early work on sexuality, McGowan focuses on Freud's discovery of the death drive and Jacques Lacan's elaboration of this concept. He argues that the self-destruction occurring as a result of the death drive is the foundational act of emancipation around which we should construct our political philosophy. Psychoanalysis offers the possibility for thinking about emancipation not as an act of overcoming loss but as the embrace of loss. It is only through the embrace of loss, McGowan suggests, that we find the path to enjoyment, and enjoyment is the determinative factor in all political struggles--and only in a political project that embraces the centrality of loss will we find a viable alternative to global capitalism.
