Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy

Cover\nHalf-title\nTitle page\nCopyright information\nTable of contents\nIntroduction\n	In the Beginning was Laughter\n	Comedy of the sexes\n	‘‘Love is a comic feeling’’\n	Dying of laughter\n	Don’t Cut the Comedy!\n	Comedy’s Power\n	Laughing stock\n	The laughing cure\n	Lacan on laughter - a new kind of LOL\n	Lacan.com-edy\n	Works cited\nPart I The laughing cure\n	Chapter 1 Sarah’s laughter: Where babies and humor come from\n		Works cited\n	Chapter 2 Psychoanalysis as gai saber: Toward a new episteme of laughter\n		Encounter with a fantasist\n		Jacques Lacan is gay\n		Gay psychoanalysis\n		Episteme of laughter\n		Works cited\n	Chapter 3 Laughing about nothing: Democritus and Lacan\n		Works cited\n	Chapter 4 The surplus jouissance of the joke from Freud to Lacan\n		The techniques of the Joke (Witz)\n			Condensation: First approach to ‘‘The Wit of the Witz’’\n		The surplus jouissance of the Witz\n			Conclusion: The wit of the Witz\n		Works cited\n	Chapter 5 Can you spare a laugh? Lacan, Freud, and Marx on the economy of jokes1\n		I\n		II\n		III\n		IV\n		Works cited\n	Chapter 6 Mother-pumper and the analyst’s donuts\n		Works cited\n	Chapter 7 Not in the humor: Bulimic dreams\n		Dry humor\n		Wet humor\n		Superego: Friend or foe?\n		Annie’s dreams\n			I\n			II\n		Afterword\n		Works cited\nPart II Comedy on the couch\n	Chapter 8 Comedy and the agency of the letter in A Midsummer Night’s Dream\n		Bringing Lacan to A Midsummer Night’s Dream\n		‘‘Love in idleness’’and the midsummer night’s dreamers’ structural dance\n		From metonymy (Puck) to the paternal metaphor (Oberon/Theseus): The midsummer night’s dreamwork\n			Metonymy\n			Metaphor, restoring sense to floating signifiers\n		Concluding remarks: On love, psychoanalysis and comedy\n		Works cited\n	Chapter 9 Psychoanalysis and tragicomedy: Measure for Measure after Zizek’s Lacanian dialectics\n		Tragicomedy as specifically modern\n		‘‘The superego is law run amok’’\n		Elizabethan tragicomedy and the crisis of symbolic authority\n		Angelo\n		Isabella\n		Lucio\n		Vincentio\n		Works Cited\n	Chapter 10 Jane Austen’s wit-craft\n		Introduction\n		The paradoxical ego ideal\n		The ideal king of comedy\n		The restoration wit tradition\n		Burney’s narrative invention\n		Austen’s wit-craft\n		The particular universal of love\n		Works cited\n	Chapter 11 The perambulatory process: Eros, wit and society-testing in Henry James’s ‘‘The Chaperon’’\n		Works cited\n	Chapter 12 Power in the closet (and its coming out)\n		Works cited\nPart III He who laughs last, laughs last\n	Epilogue: Repetition, repetition, repetition: Richard Prince and the three r’s\nIndex