Author: Sigmund FreudPublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486282538
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
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Author: Sigmund FreudFrench Civilization and Its Discontents
Author: Tyler Edward StovallPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739106471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
What happens when the study of French is no longer coterminous with the study of France? French Civilization and Its Discontents explores the ways in which considerations of difference, especially colonialism, postcolonialism, and race, have shaped French culture and French studies in the modern era. Rejecting traditional assimilationist notions of French national identity, contributors to this groundbreaking volume demonstrate how literature, history, and other aspects of what is considered French civilization have been shaped by global processes of creolization and differentiation. This book ably demonstrates the necessity of studying France and the Francophone world together, and of recognizing not only the presence of France in the Francophone world but also the central place occupied by the Francophone world in world literature and history.
Author: Mohsin HamidOnly a Joke Can Save Us
Author: Todd McGowanPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810135825
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Only a Joke Can Save Us presents an innovative and comprehensive theory of comedy. Using a wealth of examples from high and popular culture and with careful attention to the treatment of humor in philosophy, Todd McGowan locates the universal source of comedy in the interplay of the opposing concepts lack and excess. After reviewing the treatment of comedy in the work of philosophers as varied as Aristotle, G. W. F. Hegel, Sigmund Freud, Henri Bergson, and Alenka Zupancic, McGowan, working in a psychoanalytic framework, demonstrates that comedy results from the deployment of lack and excess, whether in contrast, juxtaposition, or interplay. Illustrating the power and flexibility of this framework with analyses of films ranging from Buster Keaton and Marx Brothers classics to Dr. Strangelove and Groundhog Day, McGowan shows how humor can reveal gaps in being and gaps in social order. Scholarly yet lively and readable, Only a Joke Can Save Us is a groundbreaking examination of the enigmatic yet endlessly fascinating experience of humor and comedy.
Author: Sigmund Freud
Author: Susan Sugarman
Author: Sigmund FreudCivilization and Its Discontents
Author: Sigmund FreudPublisher:
ISBN: 9781690712589
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Civilization and Its Discontents is a book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. It was written in 1929 and explores what Freud sees as the important clash between the desire for individuality and the expectations of society, the book is considered one of Freud's most important and widely read works, and one of the most influential and studied books in the field of modern psychology. This book has been carefully adapted in to a modern format to allow for easy reading.
Puritanism and Its Discontents
Author: Laura Lunger KnoppersPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138177
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
By tracing core discontents, the essays restore the anxiety-ridden radical nature of Puritanism, helping to account for its force in the seventeenth century and the popular and scholarly interest that it continues to evoke. Innovative and challenging in scope and argument, the volume should be of interest to scholars of early modern British and American history, literature, culture, and religion."--BOOK JACKET.
