Discussing examples from Chaucer to Charlie Hebdo, this book puts forward a new theory of laughter. It argues that we cannot understand the power that laughter has over us until we see it as a strange and unique kind of psychoanalytic 'event': an eruption that changes past, present and future without us realizing.
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Alfie Bown is author of The Playstation Dreamworld (2017) and Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism (2015). He is editor of Everyday Analysis and writes for The Guardian and The Paris Review, among other publications.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. 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. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781501364136
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