Theories of illness and therapy since Freud have included the
possibility that sufferers are complicit in their conditions. The
studies in this volume explore the ways in which illness and
therapy may be characterized as sites at which ironies of the human
condition are produced, encountered, acknowledged - or discounted
in favor of more literal readings. They ask what these sites can
teach us about questions of human agency and about the broader
importance of irony for theory. Encompassing a variety of
perspectives, the contributors included in Illness and Irony apply
theories of irony to a myriad of cultural contexts, ranging from
Freud's consulting room and the Lacanian clinics of Buenos Aires to
fright illness in a Yemeni village and spirit possession on the
island of Mayotte. An introductory chapter by Michael Lambek
establishes a contextual viewpoint on irony, arising from the
writings of Thomas Mann, Alexander Nehamas and others. Vincent
Crapanzano concludes the volume by linking the contributions to
current debates about irony in rhetoric, linguistics and
comparative literature.
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