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Humor and Psyche - Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Paperback)
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Humor and Psyche - Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Paperback)
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Humor, a topic that engaged Sigmund Freud both early and late in
his career, is richly intertwined with character, with creativity,
and with the theory and practice of psychoanalytic therapy. Yet,
until very recently, analysts ignored Freud's lead and relegated
humor to the periphery of their concerns. Humor and Psyche not only
remedies previous neglect of the role of humor in the
psychoanalytic situation but opens to a broad and balanced
consideration of the role of humor in psychological life. Section I
provides historical and theoretical perspectives on the concept of
humor. Contributors review Freudian and post-Freudian theories of
humor, address the inseparability of humor and play, adumbrate a
postmodernist perspective on humor, and focus on the unique
cognitive and affective properties of humor. In Section II
contributors turn to the relationship of humor to various aspects
of the therapeutic process, including the relationship of humor to
transference interpretation, the enlivening effects of humor on the
therapeutic process, and the multiple meanings of humorous
exchanges between therapists and patients. Section III concludes
the volume with three fascinating essays on the relationship of
humor to character and creativity. They focus, respectively, on the
role of humor in the 25-year correspondence of Freud and Sandor
Ferenczi, on the interweaving of D. W. Winnicott's comic spirit and
theoretical innovations, and on the relationship between humor and
creativity in the music of the American composer Charles Ives.
Taken together, the contributors reestablish the importance of
humor as a topic of psychotherapeutic relevance more than 70 years
after Freud's final essay on the topic. Delightfully readable from
beginning to end, Humor and Psyche edifies as it entertains.
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