The Odd One In
On Comedy
by Alenka Zupancic

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Author(s)

Alenka Zupancic

Editor(s)

Slavoj Zizek

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, 2008

Scope

230 Pages, 20 cm.

ISBN

9780262740319

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In The Odd One In, Alenka Zupančič considers how philosophy and psychoanalysis can help us understand the movement and the logic involved in the practice of comedy, and how comedy can help philosophy and psychoanalysis recognize some of the crucial mechanisms and vicissitudes of what is called humanity. She distinguishes incisively between comedy and ideologically imposed, “naturalized” cheerfulness. Real, subversive comedy thrives on the short circuits that establish an immediate connection between heterogeneous orders. Zupančič examines the mechanisms and processes by which comedy lets the odd one in.

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Keywords

humour , art movements

Location

Cabinet 9 - 5: Kunst stromingen en thema's

Remarks

Incl. Bibliographical References