Funny Peculiar - Gershon Legman and the Psychopathology of Humor

Informationen zum Autor Mikita Brottman, Ph.D., who earned her doctorate at Oxford University, is Professor of Language and Literature at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a candidate at the Washington Square Institute for Psychotherapy and Mental Health (NYC). She writes regularly for mainstream and alernative publications and is the author of three books on the horror film. Klappentext Why are jokes funny? Why do we laugh? In Funny Peculiar! Mikita Brottman demurs from recent scholarship that takes laughter - and the broader domain of humor and the comical - as a liberating social force and an endearing aspect of self-expression. Zusammenfassung In Funny Peculiar, Mikita Brottman demurs from recent scholarship that takes laughter as a liberating social force and an endearing aspect of self-expression. For Brottman, there is nothing funny about laughter, which is less connected to mi

Product details

• Authors: Mikita Brottman, Brottman Mikita
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2004
• EAN: 9780881634044
• ISBN: 978-0-88163-404-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Interpersonal Relations, Psychotherapy, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)