| Description |
1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Laughing your way through life -- Love -- Work -- Psychoanalysis -- Suffering -- Death -- The art of tragicomic attunement and intervention. |
| Summary |
While living in anti-Semitic Vienna, Freud wrote in a letter to Ernest Jones, 'What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.' Tragicomic attunement-seeing the comic in the tragic and the tragic in the comic-is a perspective on life that, following Freud, is one of the best ways to 'to ward off possible suffering' and better manage the stressors, anxieties, and worries of everyday life. Moreover, tragicomic attunement and intervention has a meaning-giving, affect-integrating, life-affirming, double structure that is especi. |
| Note |
Record based on Print version record. Print version is viii, 161 pages. |
| Subject |
Laughter -- Philosophy.
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Laughter -- Psychological aspects.
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Wit and humor -- Philosophy.
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Wit and humor -- Psychological aspects.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Emotions.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Marcus, Paul. How to Laugh Your Way Through Life. Karnac Books 2013 1299538886 |
| ISBN |
9781782410850 (electronic bk.) |
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1782410856 (electronic bk.) |
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9781299538887 (electronic bk.) |
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1299538886 (electronic bk.) |
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