Cutting-edge philosophers, psychoanalysts, literary theorists, and scholars use Freud and Lacan to shed light on laughter, humor, and the comic. Bringing togeth

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Reflection on the history of psychoanalysis, its conceptual foundations and its relation to other disciplines.