Book contents
- Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy
- Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I The laughing cure
- Part II Comedy on the couch
- Chapter 8 Comedy and the agency of the letter in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Chapter 9 Psychoanalysis and tragicomedy
- Chapter 10 Jane Austen’s wit-craft
- Chapter 11 The perambulatory process
- Chapter 12 Power in the closet (and its coming out)
- Part III He who laughs last, laughs last
- Index
- References
Chapter 8 - Comedy and the agency of the letter in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
from Part II - Comedy on the couch
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2016
Book contents
- Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy
- Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I The laughing cure
- Part II Comedy on the couch
- Chapter 8 Comedy and the agency of the letter in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Chapter 9 Psychoanalysis and tragicomedy
- Chapter 10 Jane Austen’s wit-craft
- Chapter 11 The perambulatory process
- Chapter 12 Power in the closet (and its coming out)
- Part III He who laughs last, laughs last
- Index
- References
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