LEADER 04504oam 2200601I 450 001 9910463140403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-429-90040-6 010 $a0-429-47563-2 010 $a1-78241-085-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9780429475634 035 $a(CKB)2670000000353773 035 $a(EBL)1181180 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000971474 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11577840 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000971474 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10939763 035 $a(PQKB)10429670 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1181180 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1181180 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10696687 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL485138 035 $a(OCoLC)842885749 035 $a(OCoLC)1029477205 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000353773 100 $a20180706d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHow to Laugh Your Way Through Life $eA Psychoanalyst's Advice /$fPaul Marcus 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon :$cTaylor and Francis,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (170 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-367-32489-X 311 $a1-78049-095-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCOVER; CONTENTS; CHAPTER ONE Laughing your way through life; CHAPTER TWO Love; CHAPTER THREE Work; CHAPTER FOUR Psychoanalysis; CHAPTER FIVE Suffering; CHAPTER SIX Death; CHAPTER SEVEN The art of tragicomic attunement and intervention; REFERENCES; INDEX 330 $a"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 especially pertinent to sensible living in our troubled and troubling post-modern world: 'In tragedy', said theologian Harvey Cox, 'we weep and are purged. In comedy we laugh and hope.' In Monty Python's Life of Brian, a bunch of crucified criminals happily sing 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life'; In Stephen King's book The Tommyknockers, the central character thinks about a joke he heard once. As a man is about to be executed, the firing squad officer in charge offers the man about to be shot a cigarette. He replies, 'No thanks, I'm trying to quit.' It is precisely this capacity to use one's imaginative resources to create a tragicomic 'form of life', a way of thinking, feeling, and acting in the service of aesthetic, epistemological, and ethical deepening, of affirming Beauty, Truth and, especially, Goodness, that mainly constitutes the art of living the 'good life.' In chapters on love, work, suffering, death, and psychoanalysis, the author shows how the 'nuts and bolts' of tragicomic attunement and intervention can be cultivated and used to help people better manage the harshness, if not outrageousness, of life, as well as more deeply engage its beauty and nobility. Unlike most books on the psychology and philosophy of humour, and following Ludwig Wittgenstein's wonderful advice-'A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes,' this book is replete with jokes, humorous stories, and amusing maxims and quotes making it a lively reading experience that aims to help people fashion the 'good life'-a life of deep and expansive love, creative and productive work, that is aesthetically pleasing and in accordance with reason and ethics. As tragicomic master Mel Brooks noted, 'Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you,' and becoming more attuned to its dynamics and applications in everyday life is the art of living the 'good life'."--Provided by publisher. 606 $aLaughter$xTherapeutic use 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLaughter$xTherapeutic use. 676 $a130 676 $a152.43 700 $aMarcus$b Paul$0868310 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463140403321 996 $aHow to Laugh Your Way Through Life$91983587 997 $aUNINA